Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Thurloe NPG D40323

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Vertue, after Unknown artist

Thurloe was Secretary of State during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. His voluminous correspondence provides one of the chief historical sources for the Cromwellian era. In 1652, Thurloe was appointed Secretary to Cromwell's Council of State. Soon afterwards he became head of a vast intelligence service that operated throughout Europe, gathering information about Royalist plots to overthrow Cromwell's government. He played a key role in the succession of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1658, and was dismissed from office on the Restoration of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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