Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Morning Promenade Dress. Summer Walking Costume', July 1828 NPG D47623

© 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:
Summer Walking Costume. A dress of embroidered muslin, of a light saffron-colour, bordered with a broad bias fold, headed in languette scalops, edged with a narrow rouleau-binding of satin, the colour of the dress: above this are branches of fern beautifully worked in white raised embroidery. The sleeves are à la Marie, and are confined only in the middle of the upper part of the arm above the elbow, by a band, the same as the dress; and at the wrists... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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