Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The House of Commons, 1833 NPG 54

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir George Hayter

This picture commemorates the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. It depicts the first session of the new House of Commons on 5 February 1833 held in St Stephen's Chapel which was destroyed by fire in 1834. The largely Whig campaign for electoral reform had begun in the mid-eighteenth century and by 1832 it had proved unstoppable, following widespread agitation and economic distress. The Reform Act extended the vote to a larger number of men according to their rate-paying or property ownership. It... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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