Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Sir Francis Dashwood worshipping Venus’ NPG D37235

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Platt, after William Hogarth

A leading Tory MP, Dashwood served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1762 to 1763. He is better known for creating the ‘Monks of Medmenham Abbey’: a sinister club that mocked Catholic religious practices with feasting and fornication. Many senior public figures were members including John Wilkes and the Earl of Sandwich. Dashwood fell out with Wilkes after he condemned Wilkes’s obscene Essay on Woman (1763). His moral hypocrisy was attacked in poems by Charles Churchill and in popular satirical prints. Dashwood… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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