'Charon's boat - or - the ghost's of "All the Talents" taking their last voyage' Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Charon's boat - or - the ghost's of "All the Talents" taking their last voyage' NPG D12895
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
A brilliant Tory statesman and orator, but distrusted for his opportunism and inconsistency. After a brief period following the Whigs, Canning entered Parliament in 1793 as a disciple of William Pitt. He is remembered as the architect of Britain's liberal foreign policy after the Napoleonic Wars, and for supporting the Greeks in their struggle against the Ottomans and the Latin American colonies against Spain and Portugal. Canning clashed with Lord Castlereagh over war strategy and fought a duel with him in 1809.... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










