'English Ball Dress', April 1829 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'English Ball Dress', April 1829 NPG D47630
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in R. Ackermann's Repository of Fashions
Described in issue number 4 of the magazine:
Rose colour Parisian gauze dress over a slip of the same colour; the body is longitudinally full at the upper part and plain beneath; it is very low on the shoulders and straight across the bust, a perpendicular rose colour satin rouleau, entwined with narrow black velvet, ornaments the front, and a similar cordon rises from the centre of the waist, and spreads over the shoulders at the edge of a beautiful trimming of plumes de paon,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










