Elizabeth Claypole (née Cromwell) Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Elizabeth Claypole (née Cromwell) NPG 952
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John Michael Wright
This allegorical, and posthumous, portrait shows her as Minerva, goddess of wisdom. The carved relief represents the goddess springing from the head of Jupiter (Jove) with the Latin motto AB JOVE PRINCIPIUM ('From Jove is My Beginning'), in allusion to her father, whose cameo portrait she holds.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










