'Evening Dress. Dinner Party Dress', November 1828 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Dress. Dinner Party Dress', November 1828 NPG D47626
© 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 magazine:
Evening Dress. A dress of white satin, with a very broad hem round the border, headed by a narrow rouleau; above which is a full and splendid embroidery, embossed in floize silk. The body is en gerbe, with a pointed zone round the waist, embroidered in a similar manner with the border round the skirt. A very narrow tucker of blond surrounds the bust: the sleeves, short and very full, are of white crape, and are confined in the centre by... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










