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. This Norvic Philatelics first day cover is illustrated with a specially commissioned watercolour of the Gallery entrance.
Postmark choices:
- Entrance to NPG
- Text: National Portrait Gallery
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.
