‘Walking Dresses in April 1807’ (Evening or Ball Dress and Walking or Carriage Costume) Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
‘Walking Dresses in April 1807’ (Evening or Ball Dress and Walking or Carriage Costume) NPG D47509
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the issue for April 1807:
No. 1. – An Evening, or Ball Dress. A round dress of soft white muslin, with short train, slashed sleeve, and square bosom, made to sit close to the form; embroidered round the bottom and bosom with a delicate border in silver. The shawl drapery, formed of a large square of pink patent net, embroidered in correspondent border of silver; which, by crossing the back, and being confined with a brooch on the left shoulder, forms the tunic... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










