Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting in the Year 1771 NPG D21302

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Earlom, after Michael Vincent (or Charles) Brandoin

One of the greatest mezzotint and stipple engravers of his day, Richard Earlom was apprenticed to the London based engraver, G.B. Cipriani and studied at the St Martin's Lane Academy. He won many prizes for his drawings and engravings. In 1774, he began work for John Boydell for whom he created three hundred plates after Claude, published as the Liber Veritas (1777-1819). He also created for Boydell fifty-one plates after Cipriani. Earlom engraved outstanding works both after the designs of his contemporaries and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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