Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cetshwayo ka Mpande NPG x134549

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano

During Cetshwayo's sitting with Bassano, the studio was mobbed. Louisa, Viscountess Wolseley described the scene: 'The crowd was so great […] They had to send for more police and hustle him off through Benson's shop, to dodge the mob at Bassano's door.'

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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