Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man, engraved as Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey NPG D6903

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Scriven, published by James Carpenter, after Unknown artist

Surrey was a courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII. He was at one time suggested as a husband for Princess Mary (later Mary I). He introduced blank verse into England, and was responsible, along with Sir Thomas Wyatt, for bringing the sonnet form to this country from Italy. His personal vanity, ambition and powerful family connections led Henry VIII to regard him as a threat, and he was executed on a false charge of treason.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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