'Opera Dress. Evening Costume', February 1829 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Opera Dress. Evening Costume', February 1829 NPG D47653
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the magazine:
Opera Dress. Over a white satin slip, a dress of crêpe aerophane, with a broad hem at the border. The corsage is of velvet, of a violet colour; long, and pointed in front, at the base, with a Sévigné drapery across the bust; in the centre of which is a cameo set in gold. The sleeves are of white crape, a la Marie; with the fulness confined at the upper part of the arm, by gold armlets; and at the wrists... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










