Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians NPG D17902

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey

Addington was invited to be Prime Minister in 1801, when William Pitt resigned after the King refused to grant Catholic MPs the right to sit in Parliament. Known for his reactionary politics, Addington was opposed to the abolition of slavery and Catholic emancipation.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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