John Thane Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Thane NPG D6947

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Ogborne, published by Thomas Thane, after William Redmore Bigg

John Thane, printseller and engraver, carried on business for many years in Soho, London, and became famous for his expert knowledge of pictures, coins and medals. A friend of Joseph Strutt, engraver and antiquary, he published Strutt's Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England in 1773. From around 1781, when he took on a second print shop, Thane became a significant publisher of contemporary stipple pictures. He was the editor and publisher of British Autography: a collection of the Facsimiles of the Handwriting of Royal... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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