Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine NPG D21458

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Faithorne

Shortly after his accession to the throne, James II sent the Earl of Castlemaine, a leading Catholic courtier, on an embassy to the Pope. Ironically this was no more popular with the Pope than it was with the Catholic-fearing people of England; Castlemaine was a particularly tactless envoy and the Pope was more anxious about Louis XIV than interested in James's plans to conquer the Netherlands.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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