Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Evening Party Dress invented by Miss Pierpoint’, August 1827 NPG D47588

National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Hopwood, published by S. Robinson, published in The Lady’s Magazine

Described in the magazine:
Over a canary-yellow satin slip is a dress of tulle, the border of which is ornamented with two rows of lozenge diamonds, in yellow satin; each lozenge is trimmed round with a quilling of yellow tulle, and each row is surmounted by a narrow rouleau of satin, the points of the diamonds being finished by white satin buttons. The corsage is of yellow satin la Circassienne, edged with tulle quilling, and a chemisette tucker delicately shields the neck; this tucker… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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