Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Frontispiece to the 2d Edition of Ld St....e's Observations on Mr Pitt's Plans of Finance' NPG D6871

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell

Politician, scientist and leading member of the reforming London Revolution Society 1788-91. Stanhope laid out the Society's principles, which asserted that all civil and political authority derived from the people, that the abuse of power justified resistance and that trial by jury, freedom of the press and freedom of elections should always be held sacred. He was satirised in popular prints as 'Citizen Stanhope' because of his democratic principles but the society, though shortlived, was influential in framing Britain's reaction to the French Revolution.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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