Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Joseph Gibbs NPG 2179

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Gainsborough

Here Gibbs is shown composing a Sonata, with volumes of music by the Italian composers Geminiani and Corelli beside him. In the 1750s when this portrait was made Gainsborough and Joseph Gibbs were both members of the Ipswich Musical Club. Gainsborough's portraits of his musician friends are among his most sensitive, reflecting his own love of music; according to an obituary he 'thought he was not intended by nature for a painter, but a musician'. More detailed information on this portrait is available in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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