Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Clare NPG D5221

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Scriven, after William Hilton

Promoted as 'the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', Clare spent much of his life as a poor agricultural labourer before mental illness condemned him to an asylum in 1837. His intensely detailed poetry reflects his love of his native countryside. It also movingly describes the hardship suffered by the rural poor living in a landscape being destroyed by enclosure. Clare enjoyed a brief London vogue with his Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) and The Village Minstrel (1821). In 1827, he published The Shepherd's Calendar... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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