Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Fairy Ring (Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth) NPG D9869

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bernard Partridge

Partridge favoured a Victorian style of dignified humour. Finding Morrison's proposal to create a non-building zone around London fantastical, he depicted him as the King of the Fairies in a cartoon published in January 1935 with the inscription: 'Oberon (Mr Herbert Morrison) to Puck. “You can 'put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.' Why not help me to put a green belt round London in forty months”?'. The establishment of a 'green belt' around London, and its acceptance as a standard principle... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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