'Details de Toilette - Corsages, Coiffeurs, &c', 1839 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Details de Toilette - Corsages, Coiffeurs, &c', 1839 NPG D47751
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum
Described in the magazine:
First Bust - Dress of white crape over satin. The corsage is made à pointe both at front and back, and laced up at back; the corsage is ornamented with a mantille of tulle or lace, plaited on tolerably full to a bouillon of the same, in which a coloured ribbon is inserted (see plate). The sleeves are very short and perfectly plain, finished at bottom with a deep frill or ruffle to match the mantille, and which reaches as low... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










