‘Walking Dresses in April 1807’ (Evening or Ball Dress and Walking or Carriage Costume) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Walking Dresses in April 1807’ (Evening or Ball Dress and Walking or Carriage Costume) NPG D47509

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for April 1807:
No. 1. – An Evening, or Ball Dress. A round dress of soft white muslin, with short train, slashed sleeve, and square bosom, made to sit close to the form; embroidered round the bottom and bosom with a delicate border in silver. The shawl drapery, formed of a large square of pink patent net, embroidered in correspondent border of silver; which, by crossing the back, and being confined with a brooch on the left shoulder, forms the tunic... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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