Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Two sketches for 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8' NPG 1383a

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir John Gilbert

Father of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, a politician, industrialist and an early textile manufacturer of the industrial revolution. His father owned a calico-printing firm, Haworth, Peel & Yates in Blackburn. Peel joined the firm and was running it by the age of twenty-three. He established a cotton factory in Tamworth in Staffordshire, and imported workhouse children from London to work there. By the 1790s Peel was one of the country's leading industrialists, employing over 15,000 workers. Peel entered Parliament in 1790 as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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