The Wilton Diptych (relates to Richard II) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Wilton Diptych (relates to Richard II) NPG D17882

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Unknown artist

The second son of Edward (the Black Prince) and Joan, Countess of Kent, and grandson of Edward III, Richard succeeded to the throne aged ten, under the regency of his uncle John of Gaunt. Misrule, plague and war with France resulted in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. After this early crisis, his reign was coloured by bitter fighting with the nobility, culminating in a royal campaign of arrest, execution and property confiscation in 1398. Gaunt's son, the banished noble Henry... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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