'Evening Dress. Carriage Dress', September 1827 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Dress. Carriage Dress', September 1827 NPG D47600
© 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 September 1827:
Evening Dress. A gown of a novel description, the lower part being made like a pelisse robe, of pink crape, richly ornamented with satin of the same colour. One broad bias fold of pink satin surrounds the border, cut in points next the knee, to which it nearly ascends: at the part where the robe closes down the front of the skirt, is a broad layer of satin, notched in points on each side: down the centre of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










