Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Smelling out a rat; - or - the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight 'calculations'' NPG D12411

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

Burke was one of the eighteenth century's leading statesmen, political thinkers and writers. His impact on the Regency age centres on his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), a major work opposing the French Revolution which laid the foundations of modern British conservatism. Originally a Whig, he showed liberal support for the North American colonies and Catholic emancipation. Despite his early reputation as a reformer, Burke's Reflections expressed fears that revolutionary ideals would violently destroy essential British traditions and institutions. These views led... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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