John Saunders(?) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Saunders(?) NPG 3135

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Saunders(?)

This self-portrait, which was probably intended to boost Saunders' business, is inscribed 'Saunders Ipse Pinxit. Aetatis 50/ November the First Anno 1732. ' The Latin inscription presents his authorship of this self-portrait in self-aggrandizing terms. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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