Nell Gwyn Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Nell Gwyn NPG D10959

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Gerard Valck, after Sir Peter Lely

She is shown here as a shepherdess garlanding a lamb, a pose that Lely often employed in the 1670s. But while there is almost never any distinction between the poses Lely used to portray respectable women and those of more dubious reputations, portraits that include bare breasts seem exclusively to depict mistresses.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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