John Henning Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
John Henning NPG x18788
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
John Henning trained under his father as a builder before turning to wax portraiture. In 1803, after coming to London where he saw the Elgin Marbles, he turned to sculpture. Over more than a decade he carved a copy of the frieze, and sold copies of this in plaster at reduced size. He also continued to produce wax portraits, and some small portraits for reproduction in Wedgwood, and later on, made copies in plaster after the Raphael Cartoons at South Kensington, which were much admired.... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










