Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Evening Dress', April 1827 NPG D47595

© 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 April 1827:
A Dress of violet-coloured satin, with a broad white satin border, over which is a very full and broad flounce of black blond. The skirt is finished down the front in the Bavarian style, with straps across of gold lace. These extend from the waist, downwards, as low as to the top of the flounce, which is headed by a cordon of gold. The body made quite plain, to fit the shape, with a falling tucker of black... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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