Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Richardson NPG 1036

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Highmore

Joseph Highmore's portrait of the novelist and publisher Samuel Richardson is a well-documented example of personal symbolism in a portrait. It was painted for the author's admirer and correspondent, Lady Dorothy Bradshaigh, who proposed this composition: 'I would choose to have you drawn in your study, a table or desk by you, with pen, ink and paper; one letter just sealed, which I shall fancy is to me.' She left artist and sitter to decide the size, and Richardson added his own tribute to Lady... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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