Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Giuseppe Baretti NPG D23501

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Watts, published by John Boydell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Baretti left his home town of Turin at the age of sixteen. He lived in a number of Italian cities, supporting himself through his writing. He moved to London in 1751, where he obtained work as an Italian teacher. The writer Mrs Charlotte Lennox offered him English lessons in return for tuition in Italian, and introduced him to her circle of artists and literary friends, including Henry Fielding, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and Samuel Johnson. Baretti became a promoter... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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