Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington NPG 1914(17)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Heaphy

The vivid simplicity of this sketch is pure Wellington in its unfussy simplicity and alertness. He rejected powdered hair earlier than many of his contemporaries, prompting the novelist Maria Edgeworth to describe him as 'quite bald'. Her cousin Captain Elers added that 'he had a long pale face, aquiline nose, a clear blue eye and the blackest beard I ever saw.... I have known him shave twice in one day, which I believe was his constant practice.'

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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