Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions', January 1867. Grand reception toilet, morning toilet and ball toilet for a little girl seven years old NPG D48020

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Paul Deferneville, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode, after E. Préval

The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (London), published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, began as the first cheap monthly magazine for young middle-class women, with a strong emphasis on practical instruction and useful knowledge such as dressmaking, but only occasional black and white engravings of French fashions. Domestic management material was written by his wife, Isabella Beeton, and collected as her Book of Household Management in 1861. In 1860 the price increased, and more space was given to fashion and fiction with coloured fashion plates and large fold-out... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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