Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I NPG 190

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Nicholas Hilliard

This portrait is known as the 'Phoenix' portrait after the prominent phoenix jewel that Elizabeth wears at her chest, which was an emblem for rebirth and chastity. She also wears a heavy jewelled collar with a red and white Tudor rose in the centre. This portrait is associated with the artist Nicholas Hilliard because of the similarity of the pattern for the face to a miniature painted in 1572 and the controlled way in which the paint has been handled. Recent research has confirmed the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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