Product Description
18 July 2006 - National Portrait Gallery - Norvic FDC - Limited edition of 20The 150th Anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery is commemorated by a block of 10 x 1st class stamps showing paintings and other works of art in the gallery collection.
The Royal Mail FDC comes with a choice of 4 postmarks
Postmark choices:
- Entrance to NPG (Entrance)
- Text: National Portrait Gallery (Text)
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters (Society)
- National Portrait Gallery (Palette)
The stamps depict:
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, politician, author, artist; portrait painter
Sir Joshua Reynolds;
poet and playwright TS Elliot; suffragette,
Emmeline Pankhurst; novelist,
Virginia Woolf;
novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott;
Mary Seacole the pioneer of battlefield nursing from the Crimean War;
William Shakespeare;
Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement
and the father of modern evolution theory Charles Darwin.
