Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Milton NPG D16769

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by C. Widder, after Peter Vandyke

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.