Queen Elizabeth I Greetings Card

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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.

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