Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mazeppa (King William IV; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington) NPG D41154

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean

John Doyle based his satirical print on a reworking of a painting by the French artist Horace Vernet (1783-1863). 'Mazeppa et des Loups' or 'Mazeppa and the wolves' shows a scene from the romantic poem by Lord Byron, 'Mazeppa' (1819).
In the poem, Mazeppa is punished by his lover's husband, by being tied naked to a wild horse, which was then set loose.

Vernet's painting is at the Musée Calvet, Avignon, France, and can be seen online at the Musée Calvet in Avignon,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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