Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG D33567

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Bromley, after Sir George Hayter

To emphasise Princess Victoria's qualities as an exemplar of young womanhood, artists revived the idealised imagery generated to commemorate Princess Charlotte, customarily depicting her as the 'Rose of England'. Sir George Hayter's appealing portrait of Princess Victoria best illustrates this connection. Posed gracefully with her hair formally dressed in a fashion reminiscent of the style preferred by Charlotte, she picks up the rose by her side. The significance of this image of her early self was retrospectively confirmed, when, on the occasion of her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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