Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘An address from the citizens of N[orwich] to the National Convention’ NPG D12256

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey

An attorney of independent means he quit his profession in order to focus on political caricature. His allegiance was with the Tory William Pitt and he directed his satire against Charles James Fox and his Coalition Ministry. Underlining the power of the political print in the late eighteenth century, Fox is said to have declared that Sayers’ caricatures had done him ‘more mischief than the debates in Parliament or the works of the Press’. Sayers’ strengths lay in his gift for portraiture and… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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