Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Matthew James Higgins NPG D46297

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard James Lane, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay

Higgins' s first publication was Jacob Omnium, the Merchant Prince, a satire on mercantile dishonesty published in New Monthly Magazine in 1845. W.M. Thackeray contributed to the same issue; the men met, when both enquired about the other's nom de plume, and became close friends. Higgins wrote for The Times under a variety of pseudonyms, including Jacob Omnium, Civilian, Paterfamilias, West Londoner, Belgravian Mother, Mother of Six and John Barleycorn. He was a prominent social figure, well known for his writing, and a member... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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