Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Patch NPG 6913

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Patch

This unusual self-portrait shows Patch with a bull's body and horns seated in the countryside outside Florence, a background which is found again in Patch's painted portrait of John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe. The print comes from the engraved series, 'The Twenty-Five Caricatures', most of which are dated 1769 or 1770. The design for this self-portrait is seen in reverse, as a painting hanging on the wall in the background of one of Patch's caricature groups (Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter). The proverb given... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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