Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Evening and walking dresses’, August 1844 NPG D47928

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by George Henderson, published in The Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance

The plate was described in the September issue of the magazine:
Evening Dress. Robe of pink mousseline de soire [soie], a low tight corsage, and short tight sleeve. The skirt is trimmed with two very deep biais, each headed by a chicorée wreath. Tarlatane canezon [canezou] of the heart form, made quite up to the throat, with a falling collar, which is trimmed, as well as the round of the canezon, with lace surmounted by a light embroidery. Demi-long sleeve, tight at the upper part,… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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