Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Called John Milton NPG D30117

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published for George Quinton, published by William Stevenson, sold by John Boydell, after Pieter van der Plas

Milton is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and a master of political pamphleteering. Forceful and idealistic, he served the Commonwealth as Latin Secretary but was arrested upon the restoration of Charles II. The tragic circumstances of his life – a difficult first marriage, the death of two wives, and his eventual blindness in 1652 – are reflected in the occasional melancholy of his work. Milton is best known for Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), an epic poem of Heaven, Hell, God,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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