Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Billy Waters NPG D48192

Art Fund Popular Portraits Collection. Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

The unrealistic black pigment used for Waters's skin colour was a convention in the depiction of Black sitters in ceramics at the time. From the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, the potteries in the county of Staffordshire in northern England produced an abundance of ceramic busts and figurines for display within the home. The majority of these were representations of well-known personalities and public figures but could also depict celebrities who gained popularity through newspaper stories about their exploits. The design for this figurine were based... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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