Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas ('F. Anstey') Guthrie NPG 4507

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Laura Anning Bell

Trained in the law, Thomas Anstey Guthrie was called to the Bar in 1881. However, the success of his story Vice-Versa(1882) with its substitution of a father for his schoolboy son, immediately made his reputation as a humorist, and he never practised law. His reputation was further confirmed by work including The Black Poodle (1884) and The Tinted Venus (1885). Guthrie began working for Punch in 1886 and he remained with the magazine until 1930. He had a talent for burlesque and parody, and for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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