Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Charles II and Jane Lane riding to Bristol NPG 5251

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Fuller

The last of a set of five scenes that commemorate Charles II's dramatic escape from Parliamentarian forces following his defeat in the final battle of the civil wars. King Charles I was executed in 1649 and two years later his son Charles returned from exile in an attempt to regain the throne. He rallied his supporters at Worcester but on 3 September 1651 the royalists were decisively defeated by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army. For the next six weeks the fugitive evaded Parliamentarian forces... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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