Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir George Scharf and friends NPG D6712

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir George Scharf

Augustus Wollaston Franks is depicted here second from left, with Scharf (far right) and two others. Scharf sketched this portrait by gaslight on a lithographic stone in his Library at Ashley Place, as a present to send to an absent acquaintance. Franks was the Keeper of British & Mediaeval antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum and a long-term friend, frequently visiting Scharf at home or at the Gallery, and vice versa. They would confer on aspects of museum practice and matters of scholarship, Scharf's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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