Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Evening Full Dress June 1809’ NPG D47544

© 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 June 1809:
No. 1. – The Elvira Dress. This dress is composed of yellow crape, with a train about half a yard in length; the front of the skirt forming a deep vandyke (to the point of which is suspended a tassel), and is embroidered round the edge in two shades of brown chenille; the sleeves are formed of several rows of plaits crossed on the arm. To complete the whole of this elegant dress, there is worn with it… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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