Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson) NPG 4436

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lawrence Gahagan

Gahagan's bust was commissioned by Clarke herself and it is believed to have stood in her house between portraits of the Duke of York and Colonel Wardle. The pose, rising from the petals of a sunflower, may have been chosen as an allegory of the cast-off mistress. It derives from a celebrated Roman bust, part of the Towneley collection displayed at the British Museum form 1808, and then thought to represent Clytie, the deserted lover of Helios, who was changed into a sunflower so that... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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