Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington NPG 1471

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Home

This early portrait of the future Duke of Wellington was painted in 1804 while he was serving in India. He is depicted in his major-general's uniform, his glorious victories all still ahead of him. He is not shown wearing the Order of the Bath though he had been awarded it in August 1804. It did not arrive from England until March 1805 and was said to have been pinned on him by a friend as he slept. The novelist Maria Edgeworth described him at... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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