Frances Talbot (née Jenyns (Jennings)), Duchess of Tyrconnel (formerly Lady Hamilton) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frances Talbot (née Jenyns (Jennings)), Duchess of Tyrconnel (formerly Lady Hamilton) NPG D30592

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Peltro William Tomkins, after Silvester (Sylvester) Harding, after Unknown artist

Famous beauty ;'La Belle Jennings' was an elder sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and one of the reigning beauties at the court of Charles II, where it was said 'she gained the admiration of everyone and was almost alone among her competitors there in maintaining a reputation of chastity'. A contemporary biographer wrote of her that her features 'shoot a thousand arrows straight into the centre of the heart'. Jennings became the second wife of Richard Talbot de Malahide, Duke of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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