Maurice Ashley-Cooper; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Maurice Ashley-Cooper; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury NPG 5308
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John Closterman
Closterman designed two grand portraits with Shaftesbury that convey his patron's Neo-Platonist beliefs. This one, in an idealised landscape, shows Shaftesbury with his brother Maurice gesturing towards the light of knowledge. Behind them is a classical temple dedicated to Apollo, god of the liberal arts.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










