Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Wortley Montagu NPG D38888

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Raphael Smith, published by John Boydell, after Matthew William Peters

Edward Wortley Montagu was a traveller, linguist and eccentric. The oldest son of Edward and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu he was much influenced by his childhood visit to Constantinople between 1716-18. Using his inheritance as security against his creditors he left England permanently in 1762 and travelled in the Middle East as an enthusiastic archaeologist for a little over a decade. In 1773, Edward settled in Venice and lived, according to one of his contemporaries, with 'the manners, habit and magnificence of a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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