'Walking dresses - Modes de Long Champs', May 1840 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Walking dresses - Modes de Long Champs', May 1840 NPG D47861
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
Described in the magazine:
Standing Figure - Dress of grey striped silk. Corsage, three quarters high sloped en coeur, and tight to the bust, with small pelerine of the same, pointed at the waist in front. Sleeves brought very low on the shoulder, with three bouillons of satin, the colour of the dress, and a tuck of the material itself; the remainder full to the wrist, when they are fastened by the narrowest wristband possible, and finished by a deep ruffle of the silk of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










