Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horatio Nelson ('Extirpation of the plagues of Egypt; - destruction of revolutionary crocodiles; - or - the British hero cleansing ye mouth of ye Nile') NPG D12660

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

News of Nelson's resounding victory at the Battle of the Nile reached London on 2 October 1798. Four days later Gillray published this detailed print outlining the main events. Nelson in Herculean pose, armed with a club of 'British Oak', dispatches a group of writhing tricolour crocodiles that stand in for French warships. Those tethered with cords symbolise the nine ships captured by the British. In the background the largest crocodile emits a stream of fire from its mouth in reference to the French flag-ship... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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