Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Bewick NPG D31747

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederick Bacon, after James Ramsay

At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a bruin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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