Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man called Sir Thomas More NPG D9866

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lucas Vorsterman, after (Claude) Corneille de Lyon

Humanist scholar and author of Utopia, which aimed to encourage the reform of English politics. The dialogues satirised European society and included the famous description of the newly discovered island of Utopia - a name derived from the Greek for 'nowhere'. The argument that statesmen need to adopt an indirect approach in order to steer policy, in a manner 'that adapts itself to the play in hand', is one of the defining precepts of humanist political philosophy. More became Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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