Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'John Wilkes and his daughter Polly' (Mary ('Polly') Wilkes; John Wilkes) NPG 6133

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Johan Joseph Zoffany

John Wilkes, the radical politician, was arrested in 1763 under a general warrant against his anti-government newspaper The North Briton, for an attack on the king's speech on peace with France. After his release he fled to France and was expelled from the House of Commons and outlawed for publishing libels. Three times re-elected MP for Middlesex but his elections annulled, he finally took his seat in 1774. Mary Wilkes (or Polly, as she was known), was Wilkes's only child by his estranged wife, Mary... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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