Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Death of General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. NPG D11101

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francis Legat, after Thomas Stothard

Heroic deaths in the midst of battle became a popular subject for commercial prints. Ever since the best-selling engraving after Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) had captured the public imagination, the demand for prints of military martyrs was insatiable. In this engraving of the death of Sir Ralph Abercromby in Egypt (1801), West's prototype was closely followed. General Abercromby collapses on the field between two of his faithful generals with the flag raised high above his head. The popularity of such prints... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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