Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Evelyn NPG 6179

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Walker

Evelyn records in his Diary that he sat to Walker on 1 July 1648, and that his portrait was intended to accompany a treatise on marriage which he had written for his young wife Mary Browne. The portrait originally showed him holding a miniature or medal of his wife. The skull was substituted some years later, with the Greek motto (top) signifying: 'Repentance is the beginning of Wisdom', and the quotation in Latin from Seneca on the importance of preparing for death.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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