Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Pickerin Executed' (Thomas Pickering) NPG D23011(h)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Francis Barlow

Pickering was a Benedictine monk who acted as a steward to Queen Catherine of Braganza after Catholic priests were banished in 1675. In 1678, Titus Oates accused Pickering of trying to shoot Charles II while he walked in St James's Park. The king's life was supposedly only saved by a faulty flintlock on Pickering's gun. The assassination attempt, as invented by Oates, and Pickering's subsequent execution are illustrated in the diamonds suit of the playing cards nearby (see knave and VI). Pickering... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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