Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield NPG 5829

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Louis François Roubiliac

This bust of Lord Chesterfield is signed and dated 1745, ad vivum (from the life). Sittings must have taken place after Chesterfield's return from his diplomatic mission to The Hague (May 1745) and before his departure to take up office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (July 1745). The bust is boldly classicising, lacking even the drapery around the shoulders customary in most contemporary busts and in this it resembles busts from antiquity.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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