Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Collins NPG D21607

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Collins was co-author of Chartism: a New Organization of the People, written in Warwick gaol in 1840. His fellow author, William Lovett, was a far more prominent and celebrated figure and the choice to portray Collins rather than Lovett is revealing. Lovett wrote the original six-point Charter in 1837 and can justly be called the movement's founder. However, his belief that moral force alone was enough to compel Parliament to grant the Charter was passionately opposed by O'Connor. The internal dispute between 'moral... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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