Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne NPG D5673

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward McInnes, published by Hodgson & Graves, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Melbourne was a Whig MP from 1806, Irish Secretary under Canning and Home Secretary under Lord Grey, 1830-34. After Grey's resignation he was appointed Prime Minister, a position he held twice (1834, 1835-41). He married the poet Lady Caroline Lamb in 1805 but they separated in 1825 following her infamous affair with the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Melbourne advised the young Queen Victoria and she became very devoted to him, to the extent that she was criticised for too... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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