Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions'. Ball dress and dinner dress or toilet de ville, February 1861 NPG D47986

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode, after Jules David

Described in the magazine:
1. Ball Dress - Coiffure Ferraris - The hair is dressed in small curls, and the flowers of the headdress pinned into each curl separately; it is dressed low behind in curls falling on the shoulders. The dress is made of white tulle, trimmed with convolvulus of various colours, or small pink roses and green leaves; the under-skirt being of white silk. The body is very low, pointed in front, and with a berthe of tulle arranged in folds or pleats;... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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