'Opera & Evening full Dresses', August 1806 Greetings Card

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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.

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