Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I NPG 542

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

The portrait of Elizabeth that can be seen at first glance was virtually all painted in the eighteenth century. Technical analysis has revealed that this image was painted over the top of an early seventeenth-century portrait, perhaps because of damage to the original portrait. Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) indicates that the wood used for the panel was felled some time after 1604, just after the queen's death. Therefore the original portrait was posthumous, based on a pattern developed during Elizabeth's lifetime. The use of x-radiography has... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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