Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Barker NPG D1164

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by J. Singleton, after George Keith Ralph

Barker opened the Leicester Square Panorama in 1793. It was one of the most popular public spectacles of the Regency and consisted of a 360-degree landscape scene, painted on the inside of a huge cylinder and housed in a brick rotunda. Viewers walked into the centre of the cylinder and were immersed in a famous battle or the sights of a foreign city. Barker's initial charge was three shillings, targeting an affluent audience, which was later reduced to one shilling. Barker's copyright expired in 1801... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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