Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Clementina Sobieska NPG 1686

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Otto Hamerani

The medal commemorates the Princess's dramatic escape from Innsbruck in 1719, where she was held at the request of King George I. It was struck after news of the negotiations for her marriage to Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', became known. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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