Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Embroidered waistcoat belonging to Thomas Hope NPG D31703

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

A collector and designer, Hope belonged to a rich family of Amsterdam bankers who fled to England in 1794 when Holland was invaded by France. In addition to collecting Greek vases and classical and oriental antiquities, Hope designed his own furniture, ceramics, wallpaper and paint schemes. These were publicised in his book, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), which was influential in promoting Greek and Egyptian styles as the height of fashion in interior decoration.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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