Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Pitt NPG D4086

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray

Pitt dominated Parliament as Tory Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801 and 1804 to 1806. He restructured Britain's finances after the American Revolution and reformed the government of India in 1784. Pitt regarded the French Revolution as a foreign issue but began to worry that British radicals were in touch with French revolutionaries. After France declared war in 1793, he clamped down on domestic dissent with the first series of 'gagging acts'. In 1800 he arranged a Parliamentary union with Ireland but resigned in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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