Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Moreland's' NPG D12897

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey

Many of Gillray's works satirise the art world. Here the figures under attack are art lovers. In the corner of a carelessly hung room, five men are examining a collection of paintings by George Morland (1763-1804). Despite his hasty and later negligent production, Morland's work enjoyed huge popularity. Gillray satirised Morland's distinctive sentimental, rural paintings by suggesting their coarseness and sexual innuendo. The 'connoisseurs' lack of real taste is epitomised by the foremost figure, Captain Baillie, an engraver, who peers through his glasses the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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