Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Political mathematician's, shaking the Broad Bottom'd hemispheres' NPG D12884

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

Lawyer and friend of Pitt, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1807 and Prime Minister from 1809 until 1812. While he had a conservative outlook on society, Perceval supported the progressive anti-slavery campaign led by William Wilberforce, even co-founding the African Institute which was set up in 1807 to safeguard the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. On 11 May 1812, Perceval was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a merchant with a grudge... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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