Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'On his liberation after six years of imprisonment...' (Richard Carlile) NPG D8083

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Richard Carlile was journalist who was a notable champion of the freedom of the press. He was an early advocate of almost all the radical causes of his time, including the abolition of the monarchy, secular education, and the emancipation of women. A tinsmith by trade, in 1817 Carlile began a new career as a salesman of two radical weeklies, The Black Dwarf and Sherwin's Weekly Political Register. For publishing Thomas Paine's works he was tried in 1819, heavily fined, and sentenced to a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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