Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway (née Hadfield) NPG 7036

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Cosway

This is the first and most direct of the several portraits that Richard Cosway made of his wife. It depicts her as a fashionable beauty and as a female artist with her porte-crayon, an instrument used to hold drawing material, on the base of a pillar. Wearing a turban that frames the sitter as an exotic and adventurous woman, she is shown with her hand to her chin in a well-recognised compositional device that suggests she is also a thinker. The classical interior makes reference... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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