Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury NPG D10932

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Faustin Betbeder ('Faustin')

Lubbock is depicted here as a determined politician, his arms firmly crossed before an official document and his features fixed into an expression of resolve. Indeed, he developed a reputation as one of the most efficient backbenchers of his day, pushing multiple bills through parliament including the celebrated Bank Holidays Act of 1871, to which the quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VIII below this portrait refers. The French artist Betbeder contributed numerous caricatures of British personalities to the London Figaro, a weekly periodical devoted to literature,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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