Joshua Cristall Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Joshua Cristall NPG 1456(3)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Charles Hutton Lear
Cristall studied engraving at the Royal Academy Schools in London, but his artistic career did not really begin until a legacy he received on his parents' deaths allowed him to go to North Wales in 1802. Here he sketched alongside John and Cornelius Varley, and these connections enabled him to become a founding member of the first Watercolour Society. In 1808, he had a major success with a series of pictures of the Kent coast. He moved to Ross-on-Wye in 1822 and spent... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










