Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Gibson NPG 1880

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Gibson

Very little is known about Gibson's life and career. He worked primarily in pastel, producing small, head and shoulders portraits, but apart from this self-portrait, only one other drawing is known by him today. The artist has chosen to portray himself in an open-necked shirt, wearing a nightcap or painting hat over his cropped hair. Such informal images of artists and connoisseurs became common in the early eighteenth century.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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