Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horatio Nelson NPG 394

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lemuel Francis Abbott

This is one of the many portraits Abbott painted of Nelson and it is perhaps the most widely recognised of the whole Nelson iconography. It depicts him in rear-admiral's uniform wearing the Star and Ribbon of the Bath and the Naval Gold Medal, awarded for his victory at the Battle of St Vincent (1797). The original portrait was painted for Captain Locker of the Greenwich Hospital. This version, commissioned for Lady Nelson, was also taken from life. Although Nelson only sat to him twice, Abbott... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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