General Phipps, Mrs Norton and 2nd Baron Alvanley at the theatre Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

General Phipps, Mrs Norton and 2nd Baron Alvanley at the theatre NPG 4918

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Edwin Landseer

The emaciated figure of Edmund Phipps, Keeper of the Queen's Privy Purse and much involved in Landseer's royal commissions, stands to the left holding a programme and spectacles while the portly Baron Alvanley, a noted Regency buck and spendthrift, leans against a screen on the right. Mrs Caroline Norton - poet, novelist and society wit - sits between them wearing fashionable snake bandeaux in her hair.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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