Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Louisa Anne Beresford NPG 3176

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Grant

Painted twenty years after the event, this portrait of Louisa, Lady Waterford is a nostalgic depiction of her younger self dressed in the medieval-style costume she wore to the Eglinton Tournament of 1839. This full-scale 'recreation' of a Medieval contest, staged by the Earl of Eglinton, was the first grand costume event of Queen Victoria's reign. Lady Waterford's beautiful appearance had been much admired, and it was where she captivated her future husband, now deceased, who was playing a chivalric knight. Commissioned by friends, the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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