Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

An unknown woman, formerly known as Peg Woffington, with an unknown male attendant and a chairman NPG 2177

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Francis Hayman

The National Portrait Gallery acquired this picture in 1928 as a portrait of the actress Peg Woffington. We now think this identification is unlikely. The painting may not even be a portrait. Instead it might be a 'genre' scene that depicts a typical moment on the streets of an eighteenth-century English town. A middle-class woman wearing fashionable, modest costume is pulling on her gloves as she waits for her black page boy to summon the sedan chair, seen in the distance. More detailed information... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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