Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Gell NPG 5086

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cornelius Varley

Cornelius Varley is best known for his landscape watercolours. For his portraits he used his 'Patent Graphic Telescope' (patented by him in 1811), a form of camera lucida, consisting of a simple arrangement of lenses which project an image on to a flat surface so that it can be easily traced. Typically he used pencil for these drawings of which this is an exceptionally powerful example.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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