'Opera Dress. Evening Costume', February 1829 Greetings Card

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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.

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