Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Parliamentary-reform, - or - opposition-rats, leaving the house they had undermined' NPG D12614

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

An evangelical Christian and social reformer, Wilberforce dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies. Wilberforce was plagued by illness for most of his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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