Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Mylne NPG D5326

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Vincenzio Vangelisti, after Richard Brompton

Mylne came from a distinguished family of masons to the Scottish crown. He studied architecture in Paris and Rome and became part of the community of artists associated with British aristocrats on the 'grand tour'. He returned to London in 1759 and won a competition to design Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames. The design, with its novel elliptical arches, excited much interest both in Britain and Europe and was said to rival the Rialto in Venice. Mylne's bridge, which opened in 1769, became one... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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