Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex; Elizabeth Monson (née Capel), Lady Monson NPG D36574

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by Charles Turner, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Essex owned Landseer's The Cat's Claw (1824), a violent picture of a monkey burning a cat on a stove. Despite this patronage, Landseer does not hesitate to mock the Earl's girth and baldness. At the age of eighty, Essex caused a scandal by marrying the singer Kitty Stephens (aged forty-four), just three months after the death of his first wife.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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