Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Johnson ('Old wisdom blinking at the stars') NPG D12300

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Gillray, published by W. Rennie

The author of the prodigious Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Johnson gained further prestige through the publication of his new edition of Shakespeare (1765) and travel memoir A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (1775). Ungainly and plagued with nervous tics, he was the victim of melancholia and could not bear solitude. Johnson had an immense circle of friends, and was one of the greatest conversationalists of all time. Reynolds founded the Literary Club with him in 1764 to 'give him unlimited... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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