Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Charles I NPG D1305

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Marshall

Published just ten days after the King's execution, Eikon Basilike (The Image of the King) claimed to be a personal account of his suffering. Combining a moral justification of his reign with prayers of forgiveness for his executioners, it was a masterpiece of propaganda and became one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. Parliament commissioned John Milton to write a theological riposte, but Eikonoklastes (the Iconoclast) failed to dislodge the popular perception of Charles I as a Christian martyr. This allegorical frontispiece... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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