'The prevailing Spring Fashions for 1806...the Elegant designs of Madame Lanchester' Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The prevailing Spring Fashions for 1806...the Elegant designs of Madame Lanchester' NPG D47494

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Mitan, after Arthur William Devis, published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the magazine:
Walking Dress. [On the right] Round gown of fine cambric muslin, with long sleeves, and trimmed round the bottom with double muslin. A cloak of fine clear muslin, bound round with white satin ribband. A white sarsnet bonnet, ornamented with white satin puffing. Grey kid gloves and shoes.
Half Dress. [On the left] Round dress of white sarsnet ornamented with crape rush. A mantle of pale yellow sarsnet with four tassels. A cap of yellow crape to match, ornamented with a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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