Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Place NPG 1959

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel Drummond

The tailor Francis Place was one of the most influential popular radicals of the day. Not only a key campaigner for political reform, he also wanted to free people from the tyranny of idleness, drunkeness and superstition. Place argued that self-improvement could be encouraged by rational recreations such as visiting museums, enrolling in friendly societies, joining reading circles and radical corresponding societies and attending public lectures. His shop on London's Charing Cross Road was a gathering place for reformers and was piled high with pamphlets... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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