Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds ('Lord Danby') NPG D29343

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Abraham Blooteling (Bloteling), after Sir Peter Lely

Chief minister to King Charles II, created Earl of Danby 1674. As Lord High Treasurer 1673-9, he used his political cunning and financial skills to strengthen the monarch's power and balance the royal finances: 'every man who had a vote might sell himself to Danby'. He was impeached and imprisoned 1679-84 following the discovery that his anti-French policy in Parliament was belied by secret pro-French treaties. He opposed the policies of James II but his career revived under King William III and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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