Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edmund Burke NPG 655

© National Portrait Gallery, London

studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds

The statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke spoke regularly in the House of Commons on colonial issues. He was a strong critic of Britain's policy on America and his speech On Conciliation with America was published in 1775; 'Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free and think they are not'. He was also a force behind the much-needed reform of the corrupt East India Company and in 1788 he opened the trial of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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