Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions'. Ball dress and walking dress, December 1862 NPG D47999

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Amédée Bodin, 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:
Ball Dress. - The hair is arranged in two bows behind, from which a touffe of frizzed hair falls gracefully on the shoulders. An ornamental comb is stuck in just above the knot, and from each side of the comb the wreath commences, which is composed of red velvet leaves. This is arranged high and somewhat pointed in front, to form a diadem. The dress, of white glacé silk, is trimmed with black-spotted tulle and bright red ribbon velvet. The bodice... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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