Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I NPG 357

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Maximilian Colte

This electrotype is a copy from the upper part of the white marble tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey. It is one of a series of electrotype reproductions of tomb effigies made for the National Portrait Gallery by Elkington & Co in the 1870s. An electrotype sculpture of this type is made by electro-deposition of copper onto a mould or cast of an object. The electrotype could then be patinated like bronze. Elizabeth is portrayed as queen, with the crown, orb and sceptre. Sculpted after her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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