'Ball Dress', December 1827 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Ball Dress', December 1827 NPG D47605
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c
Described in the magazine:
Crepe lisse dress over a white satin slip; the sleeves are very short and full, and terminated with a wreath of china roses and deep vandykes, edged with a narrow ruche of tulle; Spanish bodice of rose-colour satin laced in front as a stomacher with silver cord, vandyked at the waist, and trimmed with silver lace; the skirt is decorated with a wreath of full-blown Provins roses, about half a yard above the rose-colour satin rouleau at the edge of the... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










