Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales NPG D33519

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Cooper, published by George Smeeton, after John Massey Wright

The artistic lament for Princess Charlotte continued long into the year following her death. Picking up on the theme of the fallen rose, this newly conceived, melancholic portrayal of the deceased princess, presents her holding the symbolic flower as an emblem of all that England has lost, and as a signifier of her ideal virtues, which are celebrated in the accompanying verse. Allowing for popular sentiment driven by 'the enthusiasm of sorrow', which he noted was inclined to regard the princess as 'a promised Elizabeth',... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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