Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick NPG D13260

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jacobus Houbraken, after Sir Anthony van Dyck

Naval commander whose privateering ventures helped to estrange him from the court of Charles I; involved in the colonisation of America; associated with the foundation of New Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and later of Rhode Island (1644); raised forces for Parliament and was appointed Lord High Admiral (1643); ejected from office by the independents and subsequently took no part in Commonwealth affairs.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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