Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lucy Russell (née Harington), Countess of Bedford NPG D28090

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Simon de Passe

The wife of the third Earl of Bedford, Lucy Harington was an important patron of poets, including Ben Jonson and John Donne, and many poems were written on the subject of her wit and beauty. She seems to have written verses herself, and was also a skilled horticulturist.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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