Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Harrington NPG D22575

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Sir Peter Lely

Eccentric political theorist whose republican beliefs clashed with his friendship and admiration for Charles I; the King's personal attendant during his imprisonment, he was heartbroken by his execution; his influential The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) advocated a form of republic to stabilise society while avoiding extreme democracy; his followers, known as the Rota Club, were of some political importance in the years before the Restoration; in his later years went mad, and 'had a fancy that his perspiration turned to flies and sometimes bees'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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