Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Johnson NPG 996

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Hodges Baily, after Joseph Nollekens

This commemorative bust is a copy of an eighteenth-century sculpture. It was commissioned, along with a similar bust of the scientist Sir Isaac Newton, by the collector Robert Vernon, who left them to the nation in 1845.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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