Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Death of the Earl of Chatham NPG L146

Tate 2018; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Singleton Copley

The painting represents the dramatic collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, in the House of Lords on 7 April 1778. Chatham had just delivered a speech urging for a peace settlement with the revolutionary Americans. In order to preserve the empire he had done so much to build up, Chatham called for any form of settlement short of total independence. On rising, for a second time, to rebut the Duke of Richmond's motion that the American colonies be given independence, Chatham suffered a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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