Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Pan and Syrinx NPG D11748

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Beckett, published by John Smith

Depicting three figures. Syrinx, an Arcadian river-nymph, is shown seeking refuge with a river God whilst Pan is in pursuit or her and can be seen from the bushes. The legend states that to escape Pan, Syrinx fled into the waters of her river where she pleaded the gods for help, and they changed her into a reed. Disappointed, Pan cut the reed into pieces of gradually decreasing lengths, fastened them together with wax and thus produced the shepherd's flute, or 'pipes of Pan', upon... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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