Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Harvey Aston NPG 1818b

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Linnell

This drawing shows Harvey Aston on his deathbed. Very little is known about Aston or the circumstances of this drawing, but it is likely that his family commissioned Linnell to memorialise him. During the nineteenth-century, the memory of dead loved ones was often perpetuated through paintings, death-masks and busts, which were viewed as therapeutic aids in the process of grieving.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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