Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria; King Edward VII NPG D33628

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Thomas Ryall, published by Hering & Remington, after Frederick A.C. Tilt

In keeping with the German Romantic tradition, the royal couple asked the miniaturist, Robert Thorburn, to portray them using earlier art historical styles in a variety of period dress. In this work, an engraved copy, the queen, posed as a medieval lady, wears a dress possibly inspired by Louisa, Lady Waterford's costume at the Eglinton Tournament. Thorburn would also depict her as Raphael-like Madonna. Alluding to Prince Albert's chivalrous qualities, the artist painted him as a noble knight in armour,and a seventeenth-century courtier.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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