Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth NPG x2048

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Later images of Morrison in his role as the wise elder statesman,such as this one by Coster, reveal a change in his essential character from cocksure vigour to contemplative gravitas. This psychological shift is not explained alone by age, but also to a decline in his political fortunes. His tenure as Foreign Secretary, which began after Ernest Bevin's death in March 1951, was unsuccessful, marred by the infamous defection of spies to Russia and criticism that he was preoccupied by the Festival of Britain.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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