Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown woman, engraved as Bess of Hardwick NPG D28087

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Vertue, after Cornelius Johnson (Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen)

'Bess of Hardwick' was one of the wealthiest people in late Elizabethan England, and an important patron of architecture. She acquired her wealth through a succession of four progressively more profitable marriages, and through her own business acumen. She is remembered mainly for the house she had built at Hardwick, to a plan by the great Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson (c.1535-1614).

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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