Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Joseph Rayner Stephens NPG D21606

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Posselwhite, after Benjamin Garside

None of Stephens' violent rhetoric is alluded to in this portrait; instead his sober appearance and gesture to the Bible create an air of benevolent respectability. Less than a month after 25,000 runs of this print were issued Stephens denounced Chartism in reaction to the Newport Rising. Chartists responded by publicly burning his portrait; an act of iconoclasm that reveals the symbolic value invested in the Northern Star prints.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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