Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Thomson NPG D15554

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Cook, published by John Bell, after John Patoun

Poet. The son of a Scottish minister and educated at Edinburgh University, Thomson came to London in 1725 where he met Arbuthnot, Gay and Pope and wrote Winter, the first of his celebrated and influential Seasons which appeared from 1726 to 1730. His later work includes his long patriotic poem Liberty and the masque Alfred, containing 'Rule Britannia'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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