'Evening Full Dress', January 1812 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Full Dress', January 1812 NPG D47551
© 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 December 1811:
A white or pearl colour gossamer satin gown, with a demi-train; fancy apron of the same; the bottom of the gown and round the apron trimmed with a rich gold fringe of the Brandenburgh kind. A cap in the Persian form, of white satin, with ornaments of gold to correspond with the dress; two gold tassels depending over the left ear, and the same side the head is adorned with a plume of white ostrich feathers, and one... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










