Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edmund Waller NPG D14319

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Vertue, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Poet and wit of wavering political allegiance; in the Civil War, first supported Parliament and then led a plot ('Waller Plot') to seize London for Charles I; was sentenced to death, but the sentence was connuted to a fine of £10,000 and exile, 1644; was pardoned by Cromwell's influence; praised Cromwell in verse, but later rejoiced in his death; published Upon His Majesty's Happy Return at the Restoration and was a favourite at court; 'Sacharissa' was the mistress of his youthful poems; his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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