Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The title page to Francis Rous's 'Works' NPG D29096

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Cross

Thomas Cross was an engraver who produced numerous portraits of authors for frontispieces as well as title pages for books. He was a specialist in engraving shorthand manuals, and was himself the inventor of a shorthand system. Around 144 plates by Cross are known of, of which eighty-four are portraits and forty-five are frontispieces.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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