Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury NPG D29849

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jacobus Houbraken, after Sir Peter Lely

In the English Civil Wars Ashley-Cooper had fought for King Charles I and then later for Parliament, but at the Restoration he was pardoned by King Charles II and became an influential politician. A supporter and patron of John Locke and a defender of civil liberties, he had nevertheless acquired a joint share in a sugar plantation in Barbados and a small share in the slave ship the Rose. He was created Earl of Shaftesbury and appointed Lord Chancellor in 1672. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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