Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry Kirke White NPG 3248

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sylvanus Redgate, after Thomas Barber

Initially a clerk in a legal practice, White decided to pursue a career in the church. To raise funds for this move he published a small volume of poems in 1803, which was not successful. In 1805, he began studying at Cambridge where he became a highly regarded scholar. However, the punishing regime he set himself made him ill and he died of consumption at the age of twenty-one. After his death a large quantity of verse and prose was found among his papers, which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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