Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Probably Leigh Hunt, formerly called Percy Bysshe Shelley NPG D42249

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ellen Maurice ('Nellie') Heath, after William Edward West

A poet and essayist best known for his promotion of younger writers such as Keats and Shelley. In 1808, he established a political periodical called the Examiner. Celebrated for its reformist line, the Examiner also promoted the work of Keats, Shelley, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. It deliberately antagonised the government and in 1812, after a string of libel charges, Hunt and his brother John were sentenced for an article criticising the Prince Regent. Although the Examiner continued in production... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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