Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Sea Side Dress’, October 1826 NPG D47581

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for October 1826:
The dress is of gros de Naples, of a pale pink, with very narrow dark brown stripes, and is ornamented at the border with three flounces: the body is made close to the shape, with clear white muslin sleeves, en gigot, surmounted by mancherons, with a double trimming of lace at the edges; the sleeves confined at the wrists with bracelets ornamented with cameos. A pelerine tippet of muslin, with long ends, is trimmed all round with lace,… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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