Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Horne Tooke NPG 13

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Hardy

The radical politician Horne Tooke was an ardent campaigner for liberty and parliamentary reform. Born simply John Horne, he added ‘Tooke’ to his name in 1782 after living with William Tooke and becoming heir to William’s wealth, built through co-owning a plantation in Grenada worked by enslaved Africans. Horne Tooke had little interest in stopping the enslavement and trading of Africans, yet when it came to the issue of American Independence he was sympathetic to the demands stating ‘the people of America are enslaved’. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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