Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex NPG 4985

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

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 as a Knight of the Garter. It may have been commissioned by Sir Henry Lee, from whose collection it descends, possibly as a pair to a similar portrait of himself (Royal Armouries, London). Lee, with Essex's help, was made a Garter Knight in 1597.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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