Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Important Petition NPG D41153

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean

Holland was at the heart of Whig politics and social life and was committed to the reform of civil and religious liberties. However, he owned three sugar plantations in Jamaica on which enslaved Africans were forced to work. His wife, Elizabeth, also owned a substantial West Indian fortune which caused Holland to adopt the name Vassall to safeguard his children’s inheritance. With this wealth, Holland’s greatest contribution to Regency politics was as host of Holland House where he and his wife maintained a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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