Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Theodore Edward Hook NPG D46231

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard James Lane, published by John Mitchell, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay

Writer and wit; noted for his ebullient personality and wayward lifestyle; procured post as accountant-general in Mauritius, 1813, but later imprisoned for mismanagement of funds; became editor of the anti-Radical John Bull, 1820, and enjoyed popular success for his novels collected as Sayings and Doings, 1826-29. His last years, in his own words, were spent 'done up in purse, in mind, and in body'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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