Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Doublûres of characters; - or - striking resemblances in phisiognomy' NPG D12663

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by John Wright

No political figure or public event was safe from the biting wit of James Gillray, the late eighteenth century's leading caricaturist. In 1798, he published Doublûres of Characters; -- or - striking Resemblances in Physiognomy. This explicit print played on the recent success of Lavater's Essay. By manipulating the principle that heart and face were essentially connected, Gillray ironically unveiled the 'true' faces of the opposition party by pairing their public face with its corrupted countertype. So, for example, we see 'The Patron of Liberty'... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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