Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Gurney ('They'll be done, we are obliged to thee') NPG D13329

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by Richard Dighton, reissued by Thomas McLean

Samuel Gurney began working at fourteen in the counting-house of his brother-in-law and fellow Quaker, Joseph Fry, a tea merchant and banker. Gurney inherited enough money from his father and father-in-law to negotiate a partnership with the bill-broking firm of Richardson and Overend in 1807. The firm's business grew rapidly, to the point where, by the early 1820s, it was the largest broker in London. In the panic of 1825 the firm lent money to many banking houses to tide over their difficulties, earning Gurney... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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