Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Sharp NPG 25

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Lonsdale

One of England's most heralded engravers of the late eighteenth century, William Sharp began his career as an engraver of pewter pots and tankards. From 1771, he studied at the Royal Academy schools, after which he set himself up as a line engraver. Sharp's reputation was made with his engraving, Alfred the Great Dividing his Loaf with the Pilgrim, after Benjamin West and published by Boydell in 1782. One of the eighteenth century's most accomplished line engravers, Sharp excelled at portraits and allegorical... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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