Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lord Halifax and his secretaries NPG 3328

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Daniel Gardner, after Hugh Douglas Hamilton

Lord Halifax (right) in mauve suit with his ribbon and star as a Knight of the Garter, dictates to a secretary while another secretary holds sealing wax to a candle. The two secretaries are probably Edward Sedgwick and Lovell Stanhope, as identified by Horace Walpole when a version of the composition was exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1767. The composition bears the date 1765, when Halifax was secretary of state for the southern department, Sedgwick under-secretary for American affairs, a sub-division of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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