Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Hogg NPG 426

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Fox

James Hogg was born on a farm in Selkirkshire and worked as a shepherd. His employer lent him books and he began to write, publishing a slim volume of poems in 1801. In 1810, he moved to Edinburgh and in 1813 published his narrative poem 'The Queen's Wake', which tells of the return of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Scotland after her long stay in France. It was immediately recognised as a major achievement, and his reputation as a leading poet of his generation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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