Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Queen of Scotts Under Confinement (called Mary, Queen of Scots) NPG D13125

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Ward, probably after Robert Fulton

This fanciful scene of Mary's confinement (perhaps at Fotheringhay Castle, in the final stage of her long imprisonment in England) is typical of eighteenth-century scenes of episodes in her life, both in the artist's choice of subject matter and in his disregard of authentic portraits in constructing his image of Mary. His priority is to convey an impression of a suffering and beautiful heroine, and to stir sympathetic and pitying emotions within the viewer.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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