Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Irving NPG 1689

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Edward Irving was a popular preacher whose success is evidence of the general revival of religious feeling which began in the wake of the French Revolution. He started his career as a Church of Scotland Minister in Edinburgh but moved to London in 1822. He became minister at the Caledonian Church in Covent Garden and soon began to draw large crowds - including members of fashionable society - to his three hour sermons. Numerous satirical attacks on his charismatic preaching and extravagant theories appeared, but... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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