Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Victoria NPG D36108

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Alfred Gilbert

Alfred Gilbert produced cast medals from the 1880s, but it was his design for a struck medal celebrating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee that prompted a reconsideration of this method in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Commissioned by the Art Union of London, this double-sided medal was praised for its soft modelling and matt surfaces, contrasting sharply with the glass-like smoothness and regularity of contemporary examples. The reverse, depicting the ship of art, is illustrated here. Gilbert took advantage of improvements to the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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