Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Kerrich NPG 6531

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Kerrich

Drawing was popular among amateur artists. Sons of the gentry drew to improve their artistic judgement while for impoverished sons of clergymen, like the antiquarian Thomas Kerrich, it offered a possible career. Kerrich's childhood drawings were praised by William Hogarth but he was discouraged from taking up painting professionally and instead became Librarian at Cambridge University Library. His talent is clear from this strikingly unorthodox self-portrait. It was drawn in Italy when Kerrich was visiting Europe on a travel scholarship from the university between 1771... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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