Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Summer day dress and country or seaside walking dress, 1869 NPG D48038

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by A. Lacourière, published in Les Modes Parisiennes, after François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Les Modes Parisiennes (Paris) was a monthly fashion magazine which began as the first to be the size of a modern tabloid newspaper, with fashion plates of the same size, before being reduced to octavo in 1844 to avoid being creased in the post. Its chief artist was François-Claudius Compte-Calix, an established watercolour painter and illustrator of costume books who had also designed plates for Petit Courrier des Dames. Along with those by Jules David for Le Moniteur de la Mode, his plates introduced a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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