Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Funeral Car (relates to Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson) NPG D10682

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Nelson's funeral took place on Thursday 9 January 1806. Every part of the ceremony was planned for maximum iconic impact. This simple wood engraving illustrating the ornate funeral car would have been designed for cheap mass-production as a memorial of the day. Constructed to suggest the battleship Victory on which Nelson died, the car was decorated with a figurehead representing Fame. The coffin inside was made from the mainmast of l'Orient - the French flagship blown up during the Battle of the Nile (1798) -... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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