Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alexander Pope NPG 112

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Charles Jervas

Charles Jervas's portrait, in which the poet strikes his favourite meditative pose, was painted just as Pope had begun his translation of Homer's Iliad. The unusual composition may refer to the conflict between fame, represented by the bust of Homer in the top-left corner, and private friendship, symbolised by the figure of the woman who may be a portrait of Pope's close friend Martha Blount. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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