Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Four Generations (Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) and King George V) NPG 4536

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir William Quiller Orchardson

This is a study for a large painting by Orchardson, commissioned by the Royal Agricultural Society in 1897 and called 'Four Generations - Windsor Castle’ (now in the Government Art Collection). It shows an elderly Victoria with her son, grandson and great-grandson, the future kings Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII. The young Edward VIII wears a dress, the practice for upper-class small boys during the period, and presents a bouquet to his great-grandmother. The theme of ‘four generations’, emphasising the healthy state of British... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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