Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

House of Commons, 1730 NPG D39372

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Anthony Fogg, published by Edward Harding, after William Hogarth, and after Sir James Thornhill

In all but name, Robert Walpole was Britain’s first Prime Minister between 1721 and 1742. A Whig statesman, he came to power in the wake of the ‘South Sea Bubble’. This was a financial crash based on speculation in the South Sea Company, which traded enslaved Africans with the Spanish Americas. He built up British prosperity in the long period of peace that followed. Walpole lost money during the crisis yet these losses were balanced by his investment in another slaving company, the Royal... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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