Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Paine NPG D5455

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Godby, after Unknown artist

Radical political writer Thomas Paine emigrated to America in 1774 and published Common Sense (1776), a demand for American independence. Returning to Europe in 1787, and in response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, he published his most famous work, The Rights of Man, 1791-2, which advocated the constitutional guarantee of the civil rights of individuals. Paine fled to France and was briefly elected to the French National Convention. Imprisoned for opposing the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, he returned... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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