Queen Elizabeth I Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Elizabeth I NPG 541

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown English artist

This portrait was painted to commemorate the most famous conflict of Elizabeth's reign, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It was originally of the same horizontal format as two other known versions of this painting. Here we can see the scenes behind the Queen showing, on the left, the English fire ships setting out in clear, calm weather and on the right the Spanish fleet being wrecked off the dark, rocky coast of Scotland or Ireland. Elizabeth's hand rests on a globe, her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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