Sir Henry Unton Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Henry Unton NPG 710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

This highly unusual narrative portrait of Unton's life was commissioned as a posthumous commemoration by his widow Dorothy Wroughton, and is recorded in her will (1634). At the heart of the composition is the portrait of Unton, flanked by figures of Fame (top left) and Death (top right), and surrounded by scenes from his life and death. These are (anti-clockwise, starting in the bottom right hand corner): 1. As an infant in the arms of his mother, Anne Seymour, formerly Countess of Warwick, at the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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