Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Drake NPG D25409

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly by William Holl Sr

Born in Devon, Drake went to sea at a young age and earned his fame and fortune by skill and piracy against the Spanish. In 1557 he and his cousin John Hawkins sailed to Africa and became England’s earliest recorded slave traders. After leading two expeditions to the West Indies, Queen Elizabeth I granted him a privateer’s commission, effectively authorising him to plunder Spanish ports in the West Indies. In 1577 Elizabeth commissioned him to lead an expedition to South America through the Straights of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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