Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Bulstrode Whitelocke NPG 4499

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Whitelocke holds a paper inscribed in Latin fac quod vis pati (do as you would be done by).The motto (top left), Quodcunque evenerit optimum (whatever happens is best) from Epictetus, was adopted by him when trying to reconcile himself to the insanity of his first wife (which began on the first night of their marriage). She died in the year this portrait was painted.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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