Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King George IV ('A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion') NPG D12460

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

James Gillray showed no mercy in this caricature of the overweight Prince of Wales. Earlier in the century his corpulence would have been unremarkable, but by the Regency period the fashionable male silhouette was much slimmer. The Prince almost bursts out of his buff-coloured waistcoat and breeches while his blue coat, cut away into tails, would never fasten. These colours were associated with the Whig leader and fellow libertine, Charles James Fox, with whom George was close friends. The Prince had always been interested... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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