Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur David Waley NPG D253

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ray Strachey

The family name of Schloss was changed to the maternal one of Waley in 1914, though poor health and eyesight prevented Waley from active service in the War. He worked in the British Museum from 1913 to 1929, working on the collections of Chinese and Japanese graphic art, teaching himself the two languages. His translations of A Hundred and Seventy Poems was published in 1918, and the Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu, was published in six volumes from1925 to 1933. He never went to China... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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