Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Evening Full Dress’, December 1811 NPG D47550

© 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 November 1811:
A gossamer satin robe of French grey or celestial blue, with a demi train; stripes of white lace let in the cross way of the skirt, and relieved by a very narrow bordering of black velvet: a broad lace of Vandyke pattern round the bottom; short sleeves fastened up in front, by a row of pearls. Dress lace tippet, à-la-Duchesse d’Angouleme, edged with a border of Vandyke lace. The hair in simple and waving curls next the face,… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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