Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frontispiece to Volume I of 'An impartial collection of the great affairs of state' by John Nalson NPG D42705

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert White, published by Samuel Mearne, published by Thomas Dring Jr, published by B. Took, published by Thomas Sawbridge, published by Charles Mearne

Robert White, draughtsman and engraver, was born in London and was apprenticed to David Loggan, whose position as the leading line engraver for the print trade he later inherited. His output was huge, and in fact has never been fully documented. White's principal activity was as a portrait engraver. He usually engraved these from his own drawings, made from life in black lead on vellum. The majority of his portraits were made on commission from publishers who used them as frontispieces for books. As... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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