Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Vincent Gosford NPG Ax28429

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

Sir Edward Doughty's steward Gosford was a close friend and confidante to Roger Tichborne. Prior to his travels, Roger entrusted Gosford with a 'sealed packet', the contents of which became the subject of much speculation during the Tichborne criminal trial. The Claimant alleged he had seduced his cousin Kattie (by now Lady Radcliffe) and it contained instructions on how to deal with a possible pregnancy in his absence. This scandalous assertion caused outcry and made proving Lady Radcliffe's respectability a secondary element of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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