Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Afternoon Costume', May 1827 NPG D47596

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for May 1827:
A dress of very fine jacconot muslin, with one broad flounce, embroidered in a rich and splendid pattern. The body plain, and made exactly to fit the shape, but encircled round the upper part of the bust by a broad falling tucker of fine lace, or of muslin, beautifully embroidered, to answer the flounce on the border of the skirt. The sleeves are long, and confined at the wrists by gold jointed bracelets; the different partitions of which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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