Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'End of the Irish farce of Catholic Emancipation' NPG D13110

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah 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.