Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Pepys NPG 211

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Hayls

In his diary, Pepys records on 17 March 1666: 'I sit to have it full of shadows and so almost break my neck looking over my shoulders to make the posture for him to work by'. There were more sittings on 20, 23, 28 and 30 March, when he sat 'till almost quite darke upon working my gowne which I hired to be drawne in; an Indian gowne'. Pepys paid Hayls £14 for the picture and 25s for the frame on 16 May, commenting that... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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