Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Howard ('The triumph of benevolence') NPG D13059

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson

This engraving of the famous prison reformer John Howard visiting an imprisoned soldier and his family in a gloomy dungeon is a good example of Gillray's attempts at serious 'straight' engraving. In 1783 he practically abandoned caricature and for two and a half years dedicated himself wholly to this kind of work. He continued to produce straight prints throughout the 1780s. Most of his output was copied from paintings by other artists though the composition of this moral tableau was his own design. The commercial... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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