Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Laurence Sterne NPG D21363

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Fisher, printed for Robert Sayer, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Laurence Sterne went from being a country parson to a European celebrity after the publication of his best-selling The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-66). This was a novel like no other. Its comedy and originality lay not just in the way it told the story – via Sterne’s fictive alter ego 'Parson Yorick' – but also in the attention the author gave to the design of the book, which uses wiggles, dashes and other printing devices to give emphasis and create surprise. Tristram... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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