Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cock with hens and chicks NPG D11846

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly published by John Smith, after Francis Barlow

A pioneer of the mezzotint process. Born in Northampton, he moved to London to become a printer's apprentice. He turned his attention to mezzotint engraving and became the pupil of Jan Van der Vaart. In the first nine years of his career Smith worked for five publishers: Richard Palmer, Edward Cooper, Alexander Browne, Pierce Tempest and Isaac Beckett. He began publishing for himself in 1687, and from 1692 worked only for himself. When Beckett died in 1688, Smith inherited his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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