Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

A Scene from Don Giovanni NPG D41489

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean

An ambitious projector of London improvements, Trench was a colonel and a Tory MP from 1807 until 1847. After proposing a monumental pyramid to celebrate the victory at Waterloo (1815) he designed an embankment along the north side of the Thames from Charing Cross to Blackfriars. The idea was to relieve traffic on the Strand and create an elegant promenade along the river. When presented to Parliament in 1824, Trench's scheme aroused fierce opposition and was quickly dropped. He attempted to revive it in 1841... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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