Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach NPG 369

© National Portrait Gallery, London

studio of Charles Jervas

Like the companion portrait of her husband, King George II, this is a version of the coronation portrait, which exists in several versions. Her dress, in keeping with John Hervey's waspish reminiscence of the coronation, is described 'as fine as the accumulated riches of the City and suburbs could make it; for besides her own jewels (which were a great number and very valuable) she had on her head and on her shoulders all the pearls she could borrow of the ladies of quality... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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