Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG D8157

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Louis Haghe

The documentation of the wearing of fancy dress became a standard part of this artistic tradition, as it prolonged the transformative power of the masquerade. Accordingly, an artist, believed to be Louis Haghe, was called upon to detail the theatrical appearance of the royal couple in eighteenth-century dress at their bal poudré of 1845. Similarly, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, would provide, in the queen's words an 'excessively pretty' watercolour sketch of them flamboyantly attired in French court dress at the restoration ball they held in 185.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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