Walking dress and morning dress, autumn 1837 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Walking dress and morning dress, autumn 1837 NPG D47723
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
Also published in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, December 1837, with a description:
Toilettes De Promenade et D'Interieur. - Satin redingote, lined and wadded; the corsage tight, with a revers, or kind of small cape of velvet, coming down in front, and only forming a small falling collar at back; facings, or revers, of velvet, reaching down the entire front of the dress (see plate), which is fastened at distances by noeuds (bows), likewise of velvet. Sleeves brought low upon the shoulders in flat plaits... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










