Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jack Sheppard NPG 4313

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Sir James Thornhill

When folk hero John Sheppard was finally captured and condemned to death, Sir James Thornhill paid Sheppard's jailors so that he could draw him shortly before his execution. Sheppard had been convicted for burglary but his escapes from prison had won him fame and popular support. Thornhill's sympathetic portrait circulated widely as an engraving, generating money and prestige for the artist. A poem in the British Journal, addressed to Thornhill, told how:
Thy Pencil brings a kind Reprieve,
And bids the dying Robber live.
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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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