Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Trial of Archbishop Laud (relates to William Laud) NPG D7964

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Wenceslaus Hollar

Hollar left his native Prague in 1627. He spent several years travelling and working in Germany before his patron, the Earl of Arundel brought him to London in 1636. During the civil wars, Hollar fought on the royalist side, after which he spent the years 1644-52 in Antwerp. Hollar's views of London form an important record of the city before the Great Fire of 1666. Among his most ambitious projects was a set of plates of women's costumes, entitled Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus, or, The... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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