George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland NPG D40923

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Scriven, after Henry Corbould, after John Francis

Politician, art patron and landowner. 'A leviathan of wealth', owner of the Bridgewater canal and an investor in the Manchester-Liverpool railway, he was known for clearing peasant farmers from the Scottish Highland and for constructing a vast network of roads and bridges. He was an early benefactor of the National Gallery and President of the British Institution.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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