Thomas Kerrich Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Thomas Kerrich NPG D8389
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by and published by Georg Siegmund Facius, after Henry Perronet Briggs
Kerrich, the cleric and antiquary was a talented draughtsman who had his childhood drawings approved by William Hogarth. Kerrich won a travelling scholarship to Italy where he drew perhaps under the influence of Fuseli or artists in his circle. Later in life he wrote on gothic architecture, produced illustrations for Gough's Sepulchral Monuments and became one of the earliest lithographers. He left his fine collection of early royal portraits to the Society of Antiquaries and his other collections passed to the British Museum and... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










