Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament NPG D28686

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Collyer the Younger, after Thomas Stothard

A country gentleman who became a soldier, statesman and finally Lord Protector of Great Britain. As MP for Huntingdon and then Cambridge, Cromwell was an outspoken critic of King Charles I. His military skills and God-fearing tenacity were decisive factors in the Parliamentarian victory in the Civil Wars, and he was prominent among those who first treated with, and then executed the King in 1649. He achieved military success in Ireland in 1649, where he carried out brutal massacres. He led the New Model... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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