Hannah More Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Hannah More NPG 412
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Henry William Pickersgill
The writer and reformer Hannah More was in her seventies at the time this portrait was painted. In her letters, More described her objections to sitting for this portrait: 'Morally and physically it is grievous to me ... I object, in a moral point of view, that so much time out of my little fragment of life should be so spent'. The letter on the table is addressed to William Wilberforce, the friend who inspired her support for anti-slavery after they met in 1787. The... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










