Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford NPG D13975

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Vertue, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Politician; as a moderate Tory, worked initially with the Whigs in pursuing the war against France; intrigued against the Marlboroughs and Godolphins, who persuaded Queen Anne to dismiss him, 1708; two years later he secured their overthrow, becoming virtual head of a Tory ministry; created Earl and Lord High Treasurer 1711; at the instigation of Bolingbroke, was dismissed by Queen Anne on her deathbed, 1714; held no further office; a determined and relentless intriguer, he was a skilled party manager and a pioneer... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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