Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Britton NPG D27354

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

A successful small-coal (charcoal) merchant in Clerkenwell, in 1678 Britton established the weekly concert series for which he is chiefly remembered. The concert series ran for thirty-six years and was the longest-lasting in the late seventeenth century. It was patronised by many in high society, and had some of the greatest performers of the day taking part. Britton converted the loft over his coal house in Clerkenwell into a music room complete with many instruments, including a harpsichord and a tiny organ, on which ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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