Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Dinner Dress’, August 1829 NPG D47646

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in R. Ackermann’s Repository of Fashions

Described in issue number 8 of the magazine:
A round dress composed of lemon colour gros d’eté, corsage carrée, cut very low and made to sit close to the shape. Sleeve extremely short and full, confined to the arm by a narrow rouleau, and puffed out very much on the shoulder. The skirt is finished by two very deep biais folds, each surmounted by a wreath of mingled roses and wild flowers, embroidered in coloured silks. Canezou of white gaze d’Ispahan; the corsage is made… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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