Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Nell Gwyn (Margaret Lemon with the head altered to Nell Gwyn) NPG D47402

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Gaywood, after Sir Anthony van Dyck, and head after Gerard Valck, after Sir Peter Lely

Eleanor Gywn, or 'Pretty witty Nell', as Pepys called her, came to London as an orange-seller, and rose to become one of the leading comic actresses of the day, and mistress to the King, Charles II. The playwright Dryden supplied her with a series of saucy, bustling parts, ideally suited to her talents. She had two sons by the King, and the elder, Charles Beauclerk, was created Duke of St Albans. She was said to have been remembered by Charles on... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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