Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hero and Leander NPG D22993

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Faithorne

Apprenticed first to printseller Robert Peake and then to engraver John Payne, Faithorne was captured during the civil wars, imprisoned, and exiled as a royalist. By 1652, Faithorne had returned to London. His close links with the international print trade enabled him to establish his own print shop. In addition to selling prints, he continued to work as a printer and engraver, and published The Art of Graving and Etching in 1662. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Faithorne was appointed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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