Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

David Garrick ('Nature & Genius introducing Garrick to the Temple of Shakespeare') NPG D34375

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by John Hamilton Mortimer

Garrick was born in Hereford and grew up in Lichfield, Staffordshire. When Samuel Johnson opened his ill-fated school in 1735, Garrick was one of the few pupils. Perhaps recognising their mutual ambition, the two men travelled to London together in March 1737, taking turns to ride on their shared horse. Garrick first appeared on the London stage in 1741 and went on to achieve huge success as an actor, playwright and theatre manager, becoming the most celebrated theatrical personality of the eighteenth century. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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