Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson) NPG D13746

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by John Raphael Smith, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Elizabeth Montagu was a Shakespeare critic and salon hostess, patron of the arts, literary critic, and writer. She was christened 'Queen of the Blues' by the writer Samuel Johnson, in recognition of her role in bringing together a constellation of contemporary intellectuals. Her parents were both from wealthy families with strong ties to the British peerage and intellectual life. She married Edward Montagu, a wealthy man with extensive holdings in coal, to become one of the richest women of her era. Montagu devoted this... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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