Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Cumberland Cruikshank NPG D34414

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Say, after Gabriel Stuart

Edinburgh-born William Cruikshank studied divinity at Edinburgh University, but abandoned theology to pursue a medical career. He moved to London in 1771 and devoted himself to anatomy. Cruikshank is remembered as a successful teacher of anatomy although he also had a considerable practice as a surgeon. He attended Dr Johnson in his last illness. When Johnson died in 1784, Cruikshank supervised the taking of his death-mask, which sculptor James Hoskins transformed into a bust.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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