Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Johnson NPG D11044

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Hall, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

This portrait was engraved for the frontispiece of John Hawkin's biography of Johnson in 1787. Depicted reading a book illustrating his occupation as a writer, in a tradition that goes back to the Ancient Greeks, this image is one of several in which Johnson is shown either writing or reading. Displeased that the portrait revealed his short-sightedness, and anxious that he would be remembered chiefly for his defects, he adamantly declared: 'I will not be blinking Sam''.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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