Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Ministerial husbandry- or- cutting up the usefull plants, and nourishing the thistles-ie- saving at the spickett and letting out at the bung hole.' (William Huskisson; John Wilson Croker; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington) NPG D48681

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Williams, published by Samuel William Fores

A loyal follower of George Canning, Huskisson held a series of minor political offices before being appointed President of the Board of Trade (1823-27). On Canning's death he became leader of the 'Canningite' Tories. A political advocate of free trade, modernity and progress, Huskisson was a great supporter of the engineer George Stephenson. Ironically, he was run over and killed at the opening ceremony of Stephenson's Manchester and Liverpool Railway (1830).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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