Probably Sir Robert Dudley Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Probably Sir Robert Dudley NPG 2613
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Unknown artist
This painting was acquired by the Gallery in 1933 as a portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (bap. 1581, d. 1613), the courtier and poet whose death in the Tower of London in 1613 lead to one of the most sensational scandals at court in the early seventeenth century. However, this identification was subsequently questioned as the sitter does not bear a close resemblance to the portrait of Overbury at the Bodleian Library, which was used as the source for near contemporary engravings of the sitter.... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










