Mary, Queen of Scots Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary, Queen of Scots NPG 307a

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Cornelius and William Cure

Commissioned by the Gallery in the late nineteenth century as an aid to the study of portraiture. This cast is taken from Mary, Queen of Scots' effigy in Westminster Abbey. The likeness portrayed in her tomb effigy derives from a version of her painted portrait, such as NPG 429, because it was the best image from which the sculptors could work when making the tomb monument many years after her death. It is likely that the original source was a miniature by Nicholas Hilliard,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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