Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alexander Pope NPG 299

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Hoare

The power of portraits to promote celebrity led many sitters to try to control their image. The poet Alexander Pope suffered from curvature of the spine, probably caused by Pott's disease. Hoare's son told the diarist Joseph Farrington how 'when Pope sat to His Father for a Portrait, he showed anxiety to conceal the deformity of his person, & had a cloak thrown over his shoulders, & when Mr. Hoare was painting that part of the picture He came behind Him & said 'He need... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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