James Heath Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Heath NPG D35650

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Raphael Smith, after Lemuel Francis Abbott

James Heath was apprenticed in 1771 to the engraver Joseph Collyer the Younger, after which he was employed by the Robinson family of booksellers from 1779 to 1804. Between 1780 and 1788 Heath produced 100 prints for the publisher Harrison's Novelist's Magazine from designs by Thomas Stothard. He engraved some plates for John Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery, and in 1802 published on his own behalf a six-volume set of Shakespeare illustrated with engravings after works by Stothard and Henry Fuseli.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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