Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man, formerly known as John Gay NPG 622

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

John Gay was a poet and dramatist, best remembered for his hugely successful dramatic satire The Beggar's Opera (1727). Along with his friend Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Gay was a member of the Scriblerus Club, a group of like-minded men who exposed and attacked ignorance and pretentiousness in literature. Johnson did not rate Gay's poetry highly but credited him with the invention of the ballad opera. >

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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