Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lady Jane Grey NPG D36345

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Milton, published by Robert Bowyer, after Robert Smirke

This print invests the Heroologia portrait with additional emotional charge by presenting it within an allegorical setting. The portrait medallion of Lady Jane is placed before a classical column on which stands a statue, presumably representing Christian Fortitude. In the foreground, a sacrificial lamb lies before a burning altar decorated with a scene of idolatry (worship of images). The print thus promotes Lady Jane as the innocent victim of an idolatrous faith - Catholicism.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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