Luigi Schiavonetti Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Luigi Schiavonetti NPG D48178

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by Anthony Cardon, after Henry Edridge

Luigi Schiavonetti was one of England's most famous stipple engravers. Born in Italy, at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to Giulio Golini, after which he turned his talents to engraving. He imitated several of Francesco Bartolozzi's engravings with great success. These prints came to the attention of Bartolozzi himself, and when Schiavonetti came to London shortly thereafter, he made him his principal assistant. During his career, Schiavonetti engraved the portraits of such notables as the Duke of York, the Queen of Prussia and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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