Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Shenstone NPG 263

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Alcock

In this portrait by Alcock, Shenstone is depicted in a classically-inspired interior setting. Through the arch is a view of the village of Halesowen and the 'ruinated priory' which he erected in the grounds of Leasowes. When describing the portrait in a letter to his fellow-poet Richard Graves, he identified the greyhound as 'my faithful Lucy'. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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