Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Testimonial - to be erected in the Phenix [Phoenix] Park Dublin' (John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon; Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt; Pope Leo XII (Annibale Sermattei della Genga); Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington) NPG D48778

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Heath, published by Thomas McLean

A prominent political figure, John Scott was considered the greatest lawyer of his time. He developed trademark law by issuing numerous injunctions against merchants who sold goods bearing the name of other traders and also consolidated equity into a working body of legal principles. Scott was called to the Bar in 1776 and entered the House of Commons in 1783. As Attorney General from 1793 to 1799 he conducted the notorious prosecutions for high treason against political dissenters and sympathisers with French republicanism. In 1799... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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