Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool NPG 6307
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lawrence's portrait depicts the rising statesman next to a bas-relief of his hero, Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator. The image was engraved in 1801 when he was Foreign Secretary and about to negotiate the Peace of Amiens (1802). Succeeding his father as Lord Liverpool in 1808, he strengthened the British economy and encouraged the liberal policies of Canning, Huskisson and Peel. But he was also notorious for passing the Six Acts (1819), a series of unpopular 'gagging acts' which limited personal... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










