Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury NPG Ax10076

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Walker & Sons

Philanthropist and reformer, Shaftesbury led the movement for improving conditions in factories and collieries and, in the 1840s, argued for legislation to protect apprentice chimney-sweeps or 'climbing boys'. To the end of his life, he worked for a great variety of causes which highlighted the sufferings of the underprivileged and helped to implement the concept of social welfare. His memorial was erected in Piccadilly Circus in 1893. Commonly known as 'Eros', the figure that crowns the monument actually represents 'The Angel of Christian Charity'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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