Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke NPG x44613
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Benjamin Stone
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, museum director and architect, studied architecture at the National Art Training Schools. In 1867 he was employed by the works department of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). In 1880 he arranged the Indian collections at South Kensington, after which he became keeper of the India Museum at South Kensington. He rose to become the museum's director in 1896. Clarke's most renowned architectural commission was the Indian hall at Elvedon, Suffolk, commissioned in 1899 by Edward... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










