Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Dinner Dress’, November 1828 NPG D47616

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c

Described in the magazine:
Black velvet dress, made extremely simple; the body à la Rosalinde, scolloped round the bust, with pendant ornaments attached to the point of each scollop: melon velvet sleeves under long full ones of white aërophane crape, fastened at the wrist by jet bracelets, nearly half-a-quarter broad. The skirt is fulled in round the waist, and terminated by scollops instead of a hem or rouleau. Turban of white aërophane crape; the fulness longitudinal, and supported by frequent bands of black and lavender-colour… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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