Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The death of the Great Wolf' NPG D12551

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

This caricature of the Tory administration and its supporters is a brilliant parody of The Death of Wolfe of 1771; Benjamin West's heroic history painting commemorating the 1759 Siege of Quebec. Published the day before the passing of the Treason and Sedition Bills in 1795, it mocks the government's over-reaction to domestic radical agitation in light of the revolutionary events in France. The heavy ministerial forces in the background are clearly disproportionate to the small number of unarmed sans-culottes visible to the far left. In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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