Queen Victoria Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG 316a(125)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

These drawings were made for a bust of Queen Victoria in her coronation year. In the profile drawing, Chantrey has repeated the detail of the nose and parted lips. The success of Chantrey's busts of her uncles George IV and William IV, may have led to this commission. Made towards the end of Chantrey's life, it was said to be the last bust he touched with his chisel. Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert thought that the bust was the best portrait of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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