'Opera & Evening full Dresses', August 1806 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Opera & Evening full Dresses', August 1806 NPG D47499
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the magazine: London Fashions for August.
An Opera Dress. The first figure represents an Opera Dress, the head-dress consists of a trencher-hat, made of crimson silk, ornamented with pearls at the four corners; the hair hanging in curls at the sides; a white India muslin gown, trimmed round the neck with crimson sarsnet, and fastened with diamonds; short full sleeves, turned up, and ornamented with a bow of the same; a bow also of the same is attached in front. White gloves and... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










