Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Matthew Prior NPG D3973

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Simon, after Jonathan Richardson

Prior was a poet, Tory politician and diplomat who held important positions between 1690 and 1715. He was arrested in 1715 for his part in a corruption and treason scandal. Many important Tories, who sympathised with him, sponsored a hugely profitable edition of his poems.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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