'Hyde-Park; - Sunday, - or - both hemispheres of the world in a sweat' Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Hyde-Park; - Sunday, - or - both hemispheres of the world in a sweat' NPG D12405
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by James Aitken
Notorious gambler, rake and stud owner. From his youth, Queensberry was famed for his escapades. He was first known on the turf in 1750, the year that the Jockey Club was instituted. By careful purchase and informed breeding he developed an unsurpassed stable, taking unusual care of jockeys and stablemen as well as his horses. A friend of the the Whig M.P. Charles James Fox and the young Prince of Wales, the older Queensberry was one of the elite gang who passed their time,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










