Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury NPG 107

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist, after John De Critz the Elder

Like his father William Cecil, Baron Burghley, Salisbury dedicated his life to politics. An MP for Westminster and then for Hertfordshire he was later made Secretary of State, an office he had held for six years when this portrait was painted. On the table beside him is bell, an embroidered seal bag and two letters, one of which details his various offices. His punning Latin motto can be translated as 'Late but in earnest'. Cecil was of small stature with some slight curvature of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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