Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Edward VI NPG 1299

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to William Scrots

This portrait of Edward was painted when he was nine, a year before he became king. He is shown in distorted perspective (anamorphosis), a technique designed to display the virtuosity of the painter and amaze the spectator. When viewed from the right Edward can be seen in correct perspective. The portrait is recorded by numerous foreign visitors to Whitehall from the end of the sixteenth-century, it was sold from the royal collection in 1649 for £2.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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