Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Coalition dance' (Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Charles James Fox; Edmund Burke) NPG D12334

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey

A skilled statesman, and Prime Minister at the age of 37, North was placed in office by George III to contend with the mounting crisis in the American colonies. His imposition of the Tea Tax and other repressive measures against the colonists lead to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Despite his wish to resign when the war turned against Britain, the King kept him in office; afterwards he claimed to have felt more the agent of the King than a responsible adviser.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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