Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charlotte Canning (née Stuart), Countess Canning NPG D32589

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Henry Egleton, after John Hayter

Born in Paris, the daughter of the British ambassador and was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria for thirteen years. When her husband Lord Canning was appointed Governor-General of India she went with him to Calcutta where she was 'isolated to a degree I could never have imagined'. She kept a journal and wrote frequently to Queen Victoria, at one point describing 'strange and terrible outbreaks' of violence which were the start of the 'Indian Mutiny'. She died of malaria and was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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