Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dorothy, Lady Temple NPG 3813

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Caspar Netscher

The daughter of a Royalist soldier, Dorothy Osborne fell in love with the son of a Roundhead during the Civil War. During her long courtship with Sir William Temple, she wrote a series of letters (published 1888) which provide an invaluable record of aristocratic country life during the Commonwealth. At the end of the War, the lovers' families were still against the match, but when Temple's devotion remained constant after Dorothy was seriously disfigured by smallpox, they were finally married in 1655.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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