Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horatio Nelson NPG 5101

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Guy Head

Coming from a modest background, the Nelson of popular imagination was a humane commander who had the common touch and ignored the divisions of rank or faction. In this portrait of 1798-9 he appears with one of his midshipmen at the moment of victory during the famous Battle of the Nile (1798). The younger man hands over the French admiral's sword wrapped in a captured French flag. In the background two battle-scarred ships fly white ensigns hoisted over French tricolours under a dramatic stormy sky.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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