Kitty Fisher Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kitty Fisher NPG 2354

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Nathaniel Hone

With prodigious marketing skills Fisher managed her own celebrity status through carefully choreographed publicity stunts and painted and printed images. Collaborating with leading artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his rival Nathaniel Hone, she understood the way public exhibitions could generate a demand for her face, her body and her sensuality. When this portrait was exhibited, the Public Advertiser commented on 'a portrait of a Lady whose charms are well known to the town'. The artist has ingeniously attempted to indicate her identity: by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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