Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG D33652

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by William Heinemann, after William Nicholson

Produced to coincide with Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, Nicholson based his portrait on a photograph of the Queen wearing a bonnet decorated with ostrich feathers. In contrast to recognised modes of royal portraiture, she is depicted here without the trappings of state, standing alone and unadorned. The artist at once illustrates the stoicism and fragility of her final years, and the woodcut earned him critical acclaim. Writing for the Daily Mail, Joseph Pennell remarked: 'I have yet to be shown a painting of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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