Algernon Graves Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Algernon Graves NPG x15143

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edmund John Passingham

An art sales and art exhibition documenter who created reference sources that began the modern discipline of provenance research. Graves began working for his father's company Henry Graves & Co., researching for catalogues that the company published. During a period of recovery following an injury, he had the idea of creating a catalogue of art that was exhibited in London, from his extensive lists of artists and their works that he had compiled while working on other projects. In 1884 he published A Dictionary... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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