Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford NPG D5444

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Brown, after George Perfect Harding

Talented, extravagant and hot-tempered, Oxford was hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and a favourite of Elizabeth I. He supported an expensive lifestyle by selling most of his inheritance, but he was distinguished in his literary achievements, both as a patron of a company of actors and as an important lyric poet in his own right.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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