Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Kay NPG D8954

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Kay

The son of a mason, Kay was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to George Heriot, a barber in Dalkeith. Six years later, he moved to Edinburgh where he continued to work as a barber. In his spare time, he began to produce highly original portrait sketches and caricatures of Edinburgh characters, despite having received no formal training. Kay attracted the patronage of William Nisbet of Dirleton, who settled an annuity upon him, and in 1785 he was finally able to give up his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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