Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Evening Dress. Dinner Party Dress', November 1828 NPG D47626

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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

Described in the magazine:
Evening Dress. A dress of white satin, with a very broad hem round the border, headed by a narrow rouleau; above which is a full and splendid embroidery, embossed in floize silk. The body is en gerbe, with a pointed zone round the waist, embroidered in a similar manner with the border round the skirt. A very narrow tucker of blond surrounds the bust: the sleeves, short and very full, are of white crape, and are confined in the centre by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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