Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Emma Hamilton NPG 294

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Romney

Daughter of a blacksmith, Emma achieved celebrity through her beauty, personal vitality and skills as a performer. She is principally remembered as George Romney's 'muse' and for her love affair with Nelson. Emma fell in love with him after the Battle of the Nile (1798), when she and her husband William Hamilton, the British Ambassador at Naples, offered the wounded victor hospitality. Emma and Nelson returned to England in 1800 where a daughter was born. The affair was an international scandal, but... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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