Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Dr Oates discovereth ye Plot to ye King and Councell' (Titus Oates; King Charles II) NPG D23012(a)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Francis Barlow

This hearts suit playing card depicts the revelation of the plot by Titus Oates to the king. The plot is shown to have been hatched in Rome by the Pope and his cardinals. In London, Edward Colman, secretary of Mary of Modena, then Duchess of York, is implicated in the plot. Oates claimed that Colman planned to become Secretary of State following the murder of King Charles II. Colman's trial and execution was the closest that the plot came to the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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