Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Orlando Hart; William Jamieson; Sir James Hay; Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Bt; Archibald McDowall NPG D16419

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Kay

In the late eighteenth century there was a great programme of municipal improvements in Edinburgh. These were the subject of a squabble between local politicians when parts of the High Street needed to be lowered more than 5 feet to be made level. Kay's satire represents leading members of the Town Council, Orlando Hart, William Jamieson and Archibald McDowall, studying a plan of the proposed development. In the background, Sir James Hunter Blair, who had suggested the levelling scheme, is shown digging out the earth,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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