Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry NPG 6171

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Thomas Lawrence

In this painting Lawrence has created the ultimate Romantic military icon: a dashing cavalry officer in Hussar's uniform. He is depicted here with brilliance and swagger, wearing his Hussar uniform and the Peninsular Medal which he was awarded after the Battle of Talavera (1809). The painter and his subject were close friends and this portrait was thought to be Lawrence's best by the contemporary commentator Joseph Farrington. Its martial vitality anticipated the heroic air of the celebrated series of allied commanders Lawrence was to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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