Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Opposition telegraphs; - or - the little second-sighted lawyer giving a true specimen of patriotic information' NPG D12655

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

Jekyll practised law on the western circuit, and wrote comic pieces for Whig newspapers, in particular, the Morning Chronicle and the Evening Statesman. Jekyll entered Parliament as an MP in 1787. He served as Solicitor General and Master in Chancery, but was chiefly remembered for an embarrassing incident in 1798 in which he told the House that an expedition to Ostend had failed. In fact, it was a success as he was forced to acknowledge the following day. He was satirised by James Gillray... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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