Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Churchill NPG 162

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Stone Clifford Schaack (Shaak)

Charles Churchill was the author of The Rosciad, 1761, a satire on contemporary actors in which only David Garrick escaped his vitriol. His other targets included the prime minister Lord Bute, the author Tobias Smollett and the artist William Hogarth. Churchill died on his way to visit his friend, John Wilkes, who was then living in exile in Paris. As this portrait shows him in civil dress, it was presumably painted after Churchill abandoned the Church in January 1763 and shortly... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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