Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose and James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby NPG D27065

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Vertue, published by Stephen Austen, after William Dobson, and after Sir Anthony van Dyck

A Royalist general 'of most resolute and undaunted spirit', Montrose actually began his military career fighting against Charles I. In 1640 he led the Scottish Covenanting armies across the Tweed and occupied the Northeast of England. At the onset of the Civil War, he changed allegiance and raised a Royalist army in Scotland. He won a series of tactically brilliant victories, 1644 -5, but was eventually forced to join Charles II in exile. Five years later, a final attempt to defeat the Covenanters... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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