Bampfylde Moore Carew Greetings Card

Regular price £4.00

Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Bampfylde Moore Carew NPG D1227

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Faber Jr, after Richard Phelps

King of the Gypsies. Son of a Devonshire clergyman, he ran away from school to join the gypsies to avoid punishment for hunting a deer. A career of swindling, transportation to America and involvement with the Young Pretender during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-6 was followed by respectable old age supported by his Carew relatives.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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