Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man engraved as James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch NPG D38870

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Baillie, after Caspar Netscher, after Jan Wyck

The eldest of Charles II's fourteen illegitimate children, Monmouth was the son of Lucy Walter. He fought in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars gaining a considerable reputation as one of Britain's finest soldiers. Charming and ambitious, he was put forward as a Protestant candidate for the throne at the time of the 'Popish Plot' in 1678. On his father's death in 1685 he led the 'Monmouth Rebellion', an attempt to take the throne from his uncle, James II. He landed in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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