Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Laurence Sterne NPG 2022

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Identification rests on comparison with authentic likenesses and is strengthened by the allusion to Rabelais, with whom Sterne was sometimes compared (on the grey wall, left, a plaque with classical male head is lettered RA[BL]AIS). The portrait was painted presumably late in life when, after years of ill health, Sterne had become permanently weakened by haemorrhages of the lungs. The perspective of the background is well drawn but the figure is out of proportion and suggests an artist who did not normally paint portraits. There... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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