Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King George I NPG 5174

© National Portrait Gallery, London

replica by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

The purpose of royal portraiture was not individual depiction but the representation of power. Artists conveyed this symbolically using traditional poses and symbols: crown, sceptre, orb and ermine robes of state. This repetition helped assert the continuity of the Royals. Although not great art patrons, such propaganda was important to George I and his son George II. In order to ensure a Protestant succession these Hanoverian rulers, from Germany, had come to the British throne in 1714. They faced constant challenge from the rebellious... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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