'Les invisibles' Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Les invisibles' NPG D12935
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
The balance of this design and the softness of the stipple technique recall popular contemporary fashion plates. Series such as Heideloff's Gallery of Fashion (the most luxurious style 'magazine' of the period, published monthly between 1794-1802) documented the latest clothes and accessories in exquisite detail. This print retains that sense of grace whilst undermining it by the ridiculous extremes of the fashions on display. Fashionable men and women engage in the ritual promenade in the park, their progress, vision and conversation greatly impeded by their... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










