Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Bt; Mary of Modena; Prince James Francis Edward Stuart NPG D10694

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Pieter Schenck

The Catholic king James II was overthrown in 1688 when the birth of a male heir led parliament to invite his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange to invade from Holland. This satirical print was produced as part of a propaganda campaign to cast doubts over the new prince's legitimacy. It parodies official prints of the mother and child by implying that the infant's real father is the Jesuit priest Edward Petre. A parallel accusation that the baby was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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