Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sophia, Lady Burdett NPG 3821

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Thomas Lawrence

This portrait depicts Lady Burdett in a woodland setting, apparently resting on a stile after collecting flowers, one of which she has tucked into the folds of her gown. She wears a low plain hairstyle and carries a straw milkmaid or bergère hat with a ribbon tie. Such hats were popular in the 1750s and 60s and their use was continued only by working country women in later years. Lady Burdett's deliberate adoption of this old-fashioned, pastoral style aims to lend her a simple charm,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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