Overall: 15cm (6in) x 11cm (4.2in)
Quarter length portrait in uniform of a captain RN. Signed in ink ‘Edward P’ lower right over the printed inscription ‘H.M.S. Renown / 1921-1922’. Embossed with the court photographer’s name ‘Vandyk / London’ in the mount lower left of the image. Image size: 8cm x 5cm. Contained in plain silver glazed frame by Deakin & Francis. Hallmarked Birmingham 1921.
In October 1921 Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) left Portsmouth to begin a tour of the Indian subcontinent and Japan. He covered 41,000 miles over 8 months. He spent four months in India, travelling from Bombay to Calcutta and then from Madras to Karachi. As the British Empire's ambassador, the Prince visited India on behalf of his father King George V, to thank the nation for the essential role it had played during the First World War. The tour further provided a comprehensive assessment of the social and political situation in various parts of Asia.