Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George John Whyte-Melville NPG Ax196769

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Southwell Brothers

Novelist and poet; after an army career, including service in the Crimean War, he led the life of a country gentleman whose chief enthusiasms were writing and field sports. He published over twenty novels, drawing in particular on his military and sporting experiences; an acknowledged arbiter of hunting practice and attire, he died when his horse fell while fox hunting.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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