2-329-747 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, (c1880). Burke (1729-1797) was one of the greatest Parliamentary speakers during the reign of George III. He was a supporter of the grievances of American colonies but a fierce opponent of the French Revolution. From a miniature by Sir Joshua Reynolds. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.