Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) NPG 7

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown English artist

Painted in the year of the attack by the Spanish Armada, this is one of the few contemporary portraits of Sir Walter Ralegh in his prime. Ralegh's dramatic costume is lavishly embellished with pearls, symbols of purity much favoured by Elizabeth I. The pearls on his cloak form the rays of a 'sun-in-splendour', a common heraldic device. Research and conservation has revealed a patch of wavy water beneath the crescent moon. Symbolic of Elizabeth I as the moon goddess Cynthia, the motif is also... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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