Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh) NPG D28000

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Vaughan, after Simon de Passe

A poet, explorer, soldier, sailor, courtier and favourite of Elizabeth I, Ralegh was a true 'Renaissance Man'. Much of his literary work is lost, but about thirty short poems and various prose works survive, including The History of the World. He organised and financed a number of expeditions to North America, and in later life made several unsuccessful attempts to find gold in South America. The family home was at Sherborne Castle, in Dorset. Implicated in a plotting against James I, Ralegh spent... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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