Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Emma Hamilton NPG 4448

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Romney

The daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, Emma Hart had a spectacularly successful career as mistress to a succession of older men, finally marrying Sir William Hamilton, the British envoy in Naples. Romney met her when she was only seventeen and the mistress of Charles Greville. He was clearly besotted by her and painted her again and again, becoming her friend but probably not her lover, however much he might have liked to be. As she wrote to him on 20 December 1791, 'you was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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