Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'John Balfour's Coffee house at Edinburgh 1752' (Unknown sitters) NPG D42596

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by Paul Sandby

Paul Sandby was a landscape painter and printmaker who worked principally in watercolour. He became one of the great pioneers of natural English landscape painting, but started out as a military surveyor producing an early survey of Scotland between 1747-1752. After settling in London, he worked as a drawing master to the aristocracy and developed his patronage and reputation through his network of amateur clients. Sandby was a founding member of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768, and subsequently became the first... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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