Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley NPG D5956

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George J. Stodart, after a monument by Henry Weekes

The poet and novelist Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in innavidual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley’s first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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