Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex NPG 4966

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Oliver

A Venetian observer described how, after taking Cadiz, Essex had 'on this last voyage...began to grow a beard, which he used not to wear'. This portrait was painted soon afterwards and shows him with a blue ribbon around his neck from which the 'Lesser George', or informal insignia of the Order of the Garter, would have been suspended.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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