Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG D33566

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francis William Wilkin

Princess Victoria's symbolic status grew in pace with the fast increasing certainty that she would succeed to the throne after King William IV. The need to protect her public image as the heir apparent developed accordingly. Akin to the controls Princess Charlotte had experienced before her, the young Princess Victoria found herself strictly managed by her mother and her mother's advisor, Sir John Conroy. Images, such as this one by the lithographer Francis Wilkin, promoted a reassuring view of the poised and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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