Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Apotheosis, or, Death of the King' ('The Beheading of King Charles I') NPG D26389

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bernard Baron, published by John Bowles, after John Vanderbank

The execution is relegated to the background while Britannia turns her head in shame and Charles I is borne aloft by angels. This print dates from a period of transition during which Saint Charles the Martyr was established in the Church of England but the events of his reign were increasingly viewed as history. It comes from a series of ten episodes charting Charles I's reign.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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