Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Walsingham NPG 1807

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to John De Critz the Elder

This is the only known portrait type of Walsingham, and is associated with the artist John de Critz whom he patronised extensively in the 1580s. Despite mounting debts, Walsingham repeatedly entertained Elizabeth I at his home at Barn Elms, near Putney, in the second half of the 1580s, the period from which this portrait dates. It shows Walsingham wearing a cameo of the queen who he served so faithfully and yet who failed to reward him for his loyalty and patriotism.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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