Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

St Francesca Romana with an Angel NPG D17437

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Bone, possibly after Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, or after Giovanni Antonio Galli ('Lo Spadarino')

Born in Cornwall, he moved to London in 1779 where he worked on jewellery designs and the enamelling of watches and fans. He began to exhibit miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1781. Bone's technique began with a pencil copy of the chosen picture onto squared paper. This would be traced with red chalk onto the enamel surface that would then be fired to fix the chalk outline. He executed many beautiful miniature pieces of much larger size than had been attempted before in England.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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