Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Mr Richardson, reading the manuscript of Sir Charles Grandison in 1751, to his Friends in the Grotto of his House at North End, from a drawing made at the time by Miss Hghmore.' NPG D5810

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Constantine Stadler, published by Sir Richard Phillips, after Susanna Duncombe (née Highmore)

Novelist and printer; his three novels Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison, enjoyed enormous popularity at home and abroad, and brought him a wide circle of friends and correspondents. For many years he printed the Journals of the House of Commons.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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