Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Miss Burns NPG D18651

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Kay

Miss Burns, otherwise known as Miss Mathews, was a celebrated courtesan and beauty, who came to Edinburgh from Durham when her wealthy merchant father fell on hard times. She is shown by Kay as she appeared on her evening promenades, dressed in her fashionable finery. The stir she caused resulted in complaints from her scandalised neighbours. She was brought to court and sentenced to be banished from the city, and to be confined for 6 months in a house of correction should she return. The... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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