Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers NPG 6203

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jerry Barrett

Queen Victoria was deeply affected by the sufferings of her troops in the Crimea. Barrett shows her visiting disabled soldiers at the Brompton Hospital, Chatham on 3 March 1855, with her husband, Prince Albert, and their two eldest sons, the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, later Duke of Edinburgh. The bearded figure behind the Queen is her cousin George, Duke of Cambridge, who had himself fought at the battles of Alma and Inkerman but who returned home in horror at his experiences. At the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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