Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex NPG 4984

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Recent analysis of this panel has shown that the portrait is painted on English oak from the West Midlands area, and that the tree was felled some time after 1560. A number of versions of this portrait exist, all of which, including this one, are dated 1572. This version, in which he holds an Earl Marshal's baton, probably should be dated to 1575, the year in which he was made Earl Marshal. Essex wears a splendid suit of armour which was almost certainly never intended... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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