Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales NPG D33522
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Richard Golding, published by Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
A sign of the simplicity they preferred, Princess Charlotte originally commissioned this subtle portrait as a birthday present for Prince Leopold. It gained terrible poignancy after her death. The portrait sittings began at Claremont when she was heavily pregnant, and it was completed posthumously. Sir Thomas Lawrence wrote an emotional account of the time he spent with the happy couple in the days before her death. Honouring his promise, Lawrence delivered the finished work to her grief-stricken husband on the appointed day. Deemed 'so like... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










