Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu NPG D14129
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Hopwood Sr, published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, after Christian Friedrich Zincke
Writer and traveller. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the daughter of the Duke of Kingston. She secretly married Edward Wortley Montagu in 1712 and accompanied him on his mission to Constantinople as ambassador in 1716. A victim of smallpox which left her badly marked, she had her son inoculated against the disease at the age of four in Turkey and introduced the practice to England on her return home in 1718. A literary bluestocking and leader of society in London but left... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










