Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sydney Smith NPG D41764

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Sharp, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, published by Joseph Dickinson, after John Hayter

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.