Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Alcantara Hat & Mantle' (the composition of Mrs. Villars of Lower Gower-street) NPG D47542

© 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 March 1809:
No. 1. These unique and elegant articles are derived from the Spanish costume; and in a great degree resemble those worn by the Knights of the military Order of Alcantara, in that country, on their great festivals, &c. It is composed of crimson silk, with a rich embroidered border in gold. The collar is narrow, and meets in front of the throat, where it is confined with a cordon of gold, to which is suspended the badge of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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