Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset NPG 4260

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Nicholas Hilliard

This miniature was probably painted around 1611, a momentous year for Carr in which he was created Viscount Rochester, installed as a Knight of the Garter and made keeper of Westminster Palace. He is shown in flamboyant costume with the blue ribbon of the Garter badge around his neck. The miniature is executed in watercolour on vellum which has been stuck to a playing card from the suit of diamonds.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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