'Evening Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', December 1827 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint', December 1827 NPG D47590
© National Portrait Gallery, London
probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady's Magazine
Described in the magazine:
This is a dress of mignonette-leaf-green satin, trimmed with a broad bias fold of pink, scaloped at the upper part: between the scalops depend full bell-ornaments, which give an air of novelty to the trimming: each ornament is surmounted by a small rosette of green riband. The body is made plain, and fastened down the front with small pink buttons. The sleeves are short, plain, and very full, and are bound next to the arm with pink riband. A row of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










