Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Race ball dresses, October 1840 NPG D47860

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes

Described in the magazine:
By desire of several of our fair readers, we offer to them this month two of the newest and most fashionable models of ball dresses, admirably adapted to the race balls. The first is a dress of pink velours épinglé (Terry velvet) the corsage fits tight to the bust, is décoletée, (low) and has an excessively long point, indeed much longer than any we have yet seen. The front of the body is cut in four pieces, it may be observed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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