Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Gibbon Wakefield NPG 1561

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Edward Wakefield began his study of colonial affairs in 1826 while serving a three- year sentence for an illegal marriage in a London gaol. He focused on the depressed condition of the Australian colonies despite never having set foot in the country. He concluded that scarcity of labourers was at the root of the problem, for the easy availability of land ensured independence for even the poorest. He published his theories under a false name in A Letter from Sydney (1829). The National Colonisation Society... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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