Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury NPG 6343

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

The high level of finish suggests that this drawing is copied from a painting or another drawing. The style appears French and the French inscription identifying Shrewsbury may be contemporary with the drawing.
A surviving letter to Shrewsbury from a French diplomat, François de Civille, includes a plea for the earl to dispatch his portrait so that it could be sent to the Duke of Bouillon. Mary, Queen of Scots had numerous French supporters and it is, therefore, possible that a portrait of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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