Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Betjeman NPG x25960

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Born in London of Dutch origin, Betjeman was a friend of W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice at Oxford. He began writing for the Architectural Review in 1931. At the Architectural Press he proposed the Shell Guides and became the series editor. As an early champion of Victorian architecture, Betjeman exercised, as he put it, his own 'topographical predeliction for suburbs and gaslights and Pont Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and garden cities'. His published poetry includes A Few... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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