Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban NPG 408

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Unknown artist

This electrotype is a copy from the marble tomb effigy in St Michael's Church, St Albans. The seated formula is rare among the iconography of Elizabethan and Jacobean tomb effigies. It depicts Bacon as the musing melancholic philosopher. It is one of a series of electrotype reproductions of tomb effigies made for the National Portrait Gallery by Elkington & Co in the 1870s. An electrotype sculpture of this type is made by electro-deposition of copper onto a mould or cast of an object. The electrotype... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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