Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

David Garrick ('Mr Garrick in the Character of Richard III') NPG D34378

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Grignion, by and after William Hogarth

Garrick was the first actor to seriously harness the power of portraiture. Collaborating with many leading artists of the day he helped to create a new genre of portraiture that is so full of drama you feel as if you have a front row seat. The portrait of Garrick as Richard III, trembling with fear on the eve of the battle of Bosworth, shows that William Hogarth also understood how the theatrical experience could be exploited on canvas. When reproduced as engravings, such affordable portraiture... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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