King Edward VI Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Edward VI NPG 1132

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Hans Holbein the Younger

Edward's importance as the heir to the throne meant that numerous portraits of him were commissioned. There is therefore a far more complete record of his physical appearance as a child than of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth. The painting shown here is based on a likeness captured in a drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger. This appears to have been copied and the pattern would have circulated among artists' workshops in order to produce numerous other portraits. Conservation treatment has revealed a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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