'Paris Ball Dress', March 1836 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Paris Ball Dress', March 1836 NPG D47709
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Joseph Robins, published in The Ladies' Pocket Magazine
Described in the magazine:
Lemon coloured crape robe over satin to correspond. Low corsage of the corset form, cut low and trimmed round the top with a row of blond disposed à l'enfant by a rose coloured gauze ribbon run through it, which forms a heading. Short tight sleeves with blond manchettes à la Maintenon, trimmed at the bend of the arm with coques of rose ribbon. The skirt is disposed in two rows of folds down the right side, one row is confined by... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










