Prince Rupert, Count Palatine Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Prince Rupert, Count Palatine NPG D22928

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Faithorne, published by Peter Stent, after William Dobson

Dobson's oil portrait of Prince Rupert, the nephew of Charles I and one of his principal commanders in the Civil War, is now lost. Both Dobson and the engraver William Faithorne had been apprentices of the artist and printseller William Peake. During the Civil War, while Dobson worked for the court in Oxford, Faithorne fought as an officer in the Royalist army. He was captured in October 1645 at the bloody end of the two-year siege of Basing House, Hampshire. Remarkably, the prints... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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