Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury, later Mrs Thrale) NPG D16112

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Marino or Mariano Bovi (Bova), published by John Stockdale, after Pierre Noel Violet

The daughter of a Welsh landowner, Hester Lynch Salusbury married London brewer Henry Thrale aged twenty-two. In 1765 the Thrales were introduced to Samuel Johnson who, thereafter, spent much time at their home in Streatham where he enjoyed the lively conversation of his well-educated hostess. It was widely speculated that the two would marry when Thrale died in 1781 but they became estranged when she married the Italian musician Gabriel Mario Piozzi in July 1784. Her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, written... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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