Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth NPG D987
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Ridley, published by Vernor & Hood, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
After the birth of her six child, Elizabeth Craven separated from her husband and set out on a long journey across Europe in 1783. She went on to publish her diary of this trip as A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789). When she reached Ansbach she began an affair with Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth. On the death of Elizabeth's first husband, in 1791, the Margrave sold his Prussian estates and they returned to London to live in Hammersmith at Brandenburg... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










