Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I NPG 4449

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown English artist

This portrait was probably painted just after Elizabeth's accession. It has a formulaic quality that suggests it was not painted from the life. It was probably one of many versions executed to fulfil a demand for the queen's likeness in the early years of her reign when she was still expected to enter into marriage and before she became associated with the more complex emblems of virginity that are often found in later portraits. Recent technical analysis has shown that the background was originally a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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