Sir Sydney Cockerell Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Sydney Cockerell NPG x48552

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lafayette

Began his career in the coal business. His friendships with John Ruskin and William Morris led to work that he found more conducive: Morris offered him the task of cataloguing his library of manuscripts and early printed books and in 1894, he also became Secretary to Morris's Kelmscott Press. After Morris's death, Cockerell acted as his literary executor, a task he was to carry out for many other literary friends. In 1908, Cockerell was appointed director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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