Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King George IV NPG D33349

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by P. Thomas, published by Graves & Warmsley, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Originally painted in 1822, this portrait dates after the death of his daughter Princess Charlotte, but, in portraying the Prince Regent in a more relaxed fashion, suggests his more private persona that she would have experienced. Having married her mother, Princess Caroline, for mercenary reasons, he was drunk on their wedding day. Despite their short-lived union, they conceived Charlotte. The relationship between father and daughter was also turbulent. As she grew up, the prince viewed his heir with increasing suspicion and, aware of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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