Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The explanation' NPG D12651

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

Dudley Ryder was elected to his father's old Parliament seat of Tiverton in 1784, where he remained throughout his Commons career. William Pitt, the premier, became his friend and political patron and in 1790 Pitt appointed him Vice President of the Board of Trade, a post he held for eleven years. Ryder was in favour of abolition of the slave trade and of Catholic emancipation. On his father's death in 1803, he succeeded to the peerage, and in 1805 Pitt made him Chancellor of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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