Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Cosmo Monkhouse NPG 1868

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John McLure Hamilton

Monkhouse left school at sixteen to become a clerk in the Board of Trade, rising to Assistant Secretary to the Finance Department. In 1865, he published his first volume of poetry, A Dream of Idleness, and other Poems. It was not a huge success and for some years he abandoned poetry for art criticism. Besides many contributions to The Academy, the Magazine of Art and the Saturday Review, he published volumes The Italian Pre-Raphaelites (1887), The Earlier English Watercolour Painters (1890) and In the National... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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