Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford NPG 2126

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Michael Rysbrack

Although this bust is signed and dated 1738, it is now thought that Rysbrack made it earlier. Identical in all but medium to a 1726 marble bust at Walpole's country house at Houghton Hall, it is likely that the terracotta bust started life as the marble bust's clay model, which was subsequently fired, signed and dated 1738. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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