Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Evening Costume', May 1826 NPG D47579

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for May 1826:
Over a white satin slip, a dress of tulle, with a very full buffont puckering round the border, forming two rows. The fulness of these rich ornaments is confined by straps of satin, placed in bias at equal distances. The waist is à la Suisse, and is laced down the front with silk cordon. The sleeves are short, from the shoulder to rather more than the middle of the arm above the elbow: they are formed of two... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.