Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Opera Costume', March 1826 NPG D47580

© 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 issue for March 1826:
Over a white satin petticoat is worn a tunique robe of tulle; the petticoat trimmed round the border with a tulle flounce, doubled in bias and set on in fluted plaits: this flounce is surmounted by a rouleau of white satin, and an ornament composed of tulle, entwined with narrow satin rouleaux; the ornament hollow, and arranged en tirebouchon. The tunique robe is trimmed round with three narrow, separate rouleaux of satin, and is girt round the waist... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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