Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh); Walter Ralegh NPG 3914

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

This portrait was painted in 1602, when Ralegh was at the height of his renewed favour with the Queen. It shows him together with his eight-year old son, also Walter (1593-1618), who is made to mimic his father's confident pose. Both father and son are dressed in splendid costumes; Ralegh's jacket is embroidered with seed pearls, and his son's blue suit is silver-braided. A contemporary of Ralegh described him as, 'framed in so just a proportion and so seemly an order, as there was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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