Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Crabbe NPG 316a(24b)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Poet who practised as a doctor in Aldeburgh before moving to London in 1780. He was befriended by Edmund Burke who helped him publish The Village, a grim picture of rural poverty. He wrote a series of powerful narrative poems of rural life, most notably The Parish Register and The Borough (which includes the tale of 'Peter Grimes'). Byron called him 'Nature's sternest painter yet the best'.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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