Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lady Jane Grey NPG D21397

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Gaspar Bouttats, after Magdalena de Passe, after Willem de Passe

The print is an early example of the widespread dissemination and influence of the Heroologia Anglica portrait of Lady Jane. Produced for a Dutch audience, this print places an inverse copy of the de Passe engraving within an elaborate border decorated with grotesque motifs. A print in the Gallery archive of Anne Boleyn, another executed queen, has an identical border. It is possible that they came from a set of forty-three portraits produced by Bouttats in 1658.
Translation of Dutch inscription: Queen of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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