Card (Christmas National Gallery): Wilton Diptych Angels

Christmas Card, 12cm x 17cm with glitter detail.

Blank inside

The Wilton Diptych is a small portable diptych from the Middle Ages. This detail shows the Virgin and Child surrounded by angels dressed in blue with floral crowns.

Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund ('The Wilton Diptych'), about 1395-9

Egg on oak, 53 × 37 cm

© The National Gallery London, Bought with a special grant and contributions from Samuel Courtauld, Viscount Rothermere, C.T. Stoop and the Art Fund, 1929