Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I ('Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses') NPG 6947

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Isaac Oliver

This previously unknown small-scale painting reinterprets the theme of Elizabeth and the three goddesses, also depicted in an oil painting of this title in the Royal Collection. The subject is a reworking of the classical legend known as the 'Judgement of Paris', in which a golden apple is awarded by Paris to the fairest of the three goddesses, the outcome of which led to the Trojan War. Here, rather than repeat Paris's folly, Elizabeth retains the golden orb for herself as she alone combines their... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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