Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Macpherson NPG D5183

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Keyse Sherwin, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Macpherson, a poet, writer and Member of Parliament, is most famous for his supposed translations of the poetry of Ossian, a third-century Scottish Highland Bard. Published as Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760), Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763), these poems were based on the collection of Gaelic ballads that Macpherson made while touring the Highlands. Although exposed as fakes in 1805, the poems had already developed a cult status, which was fuelled by the rise of national sentiment and the taste for the sublime and rustic.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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