Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horace Walpole NPG 6520

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Joshua Reynolds

This portrait by Reynolds was given by the sitter to Grosvenor Bedford, Walpole's deputy at the Exchequer. One contemporary observer described the portrait as 'very like' but 'a little too plump'; another noted how Walpole had a complexion of 'a most unhealthy paleness', though the portrait's pallor may be due in part to Reynolds's notorious use of fugitive pigments. Walpole is shown with a print of the ancient Roman marble eagle he had acquired in 1745.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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