Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The new dynasty: - or - the little Corsican Gardiner planting a royal-pippin-tree. - "All the talents", busy, in clearing the ground of old timber' NPG D12894

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

A political journalist and farmer, Cobbett was one of the most influential radicals in the decades before the Reform Act (1832). Initially a Tory supporter, he launched his weekly Political Register (1802-35) with the help of Pitt and Canning. In 1816, the price of the Political Register was drastically reduced to ensure it reached the working classes. In his Rural Rides (1830) Cobbett continued to champion the rural poor. As an advocate of political reform he was frequently controversial though his writing was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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