Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Queen Mary quitting Stirling Castle' NPG D13136

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Luson Thomas, after Henrietta Mary Ada Ward

The scene depicted here is of Mary leaving her child James in the care of the Earl of Mar at Stirling Castle in 1567. Although the Queen did not know it at the time, this was to be her last sight of her child, and the artist of the painting on which this print was based, Henrietta Ward, depicted Mary feeling a presentiment that she might not see James again. The painting, with a typical nineteenth-century combination of historical and domestic narrative, was exceptionally well... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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