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Samuel Rogers NPG D15653

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Meyer, published by Thomas Cadell the Elder, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Best remembered as a witty conversationalist and as a friend of poets such as Byron and Wordsworth, Rogers attained eminence with the publication of his poem The Pleasures of Memory (1792). This widely praised poem was so popular that by 1806 it had gone through fifteen editions. His other published poetry included The Voyage of Columbus (1810) and Italy (1822-8). In 1793 he inherited a banking firm, and for the next half century he maintained an influential position in London society. The amusing, though often... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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