Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex NPG D29507

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bernard Picart (Picard), after Sir Peter Lely

Essex was one of the ablest statesmen under Charles II, serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-77, and First Lord of the Treasury, 1679. Fearing the prospect of a Catholic monarch, he became involved with attempts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession and, more dangerously, with the schemes of the Duke of Monmouth. Betrayed and imprisoned in the Tower, he was found with his throat cut. Although his death was recorded as suicide, he was probably murdered.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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