Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry Davies NPG 2046

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Theodore Spicer-Simson

Theodore Spicer-Simson returned to Britain in 1921 to begin making a collection of portraits of leading authors, which were published in his Men of Letters of the British Isles (1924). He gave the Gallery a number of his preparatory models before lettering. The final medals were cast in bronze in small editions.

Later, Spicer-Simson recalled the origins of this medal in his reminiscences, A Collector of Characters (posthumously published, 1962). It was Lawrence Binyon at the British Museum, who set up the initial meeting... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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