Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Philip Sidney NPG D34616

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Magdalena de Passe, by Willem de Passe

To many of his contemporaries Philip Sidney represented the ideal of the renaissance courtier. He was a soldier, diplomat and author who became one of the most influential Elizabethan poets. He is known particularly for his prose romance Arcadia and the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella. He died at the age of thirty two from wounds he received fighting the Spanish at Zutphen, on his brother the Earl of Leicester's expedition. His sister Mary Herbert would oversee the publication of the manuscripts of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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