Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Kay NPG D4970

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Kay

This self-portrait shows Kay near the start of his artistic career. He has depicted himself in a thoughtful posture in an antiquated chair, to represent his love of antiquities, with a bust of the Greek poet Homer and his painting utensils on the table. With him is his favourite cat - the largest, he believed, in Scotland.

His widow later complained that he would too readily 'quit his lucrative employment in miniature drawing, in order to commit some freak of his fancy to copper,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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