Sydney Smith Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sydney Smith NPG 2887
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Sir Edwin Landseer
A clergyman, essayist and social reformer, Smith founded the Whig Edinburgh Review with Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham in 1802. For the next twenty-five years he used this periodical as an organ for his liberal views on educational reform, the slave trade and the Irish situation. Smith was perhaps the most celebrated wit of his age and an exuberant member of the Holland House set. His humorous Letters to Peter Plymley (1807-8) supported Catholic emancipation. Although later appointed Canon of St... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










