John Tradescant the Younger Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Tradescant the Younger NPG 1089

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Thomas De Critz

The moss growing on the skull in the portrait is probably in allusion to the belief that a powder made 'out of the mosse of a man's scull' was 'a soveraine remedy for the falling sickness (epilepsy)'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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