Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lady Jane Grey NPG D24993

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Ward, after Robert Fulton

Lady Jane is shown taking solace from the Bible as an hourglass measures the passing of her final hours. This print was produced as one of a pair of Tudor royal martyrs alongside the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. The theme had a renewed topicality in 1793, which witnessed the execution by guillotine of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution. The lines of verse below the scene come from Edward Young's influential poem The Force of Religion; Or, Vanquish'd... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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