Queen Elizabeth I Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Queen Elizabeth I NPG 4294
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Steven van Herwijck
This cast lead medal of Queen Elizabeth I was found in a ploughed field at Great Moulton in Norfolk in 1962. It is the only known example of a medal which was the subject of a correspondence in 1565 between a Flemish poet and scholar, Charles Utenhove, and William Cecil, the Queen's Secretary, in which Utenhove seeks permission to produce a portrait medal of the Queen with an inscription in Greek on the reverse meaning 'divine fountain of the realm', with the Greek letters being... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










