Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Apotheosis of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales' NPG D33524

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Fry & Wright, after Edward Francisco Burney, after R.P. Read

This highly sentimental engraving indicates how Princess Charlotte came to be viewed as an ideal in the years after her death. She and her stillborn baby are represented ascending to heaven. The accompanying key emphasises the heavy symbolism of the work, including the motif of the emblematic 'finest Rose' fallen with 'its infant bud' in the front right corner of the image. This engraving was possibly one inspiration for the design of the similarly-themed white marble memorial for the princess created by Matthew Wyatt, paid... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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