Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jonathan Richardson NPG 1693

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jonathan Richardson

Richardson drew over one hundred self-portraits: a sustained project of self-scrutiny which could only be achieved through drawing. The soft cap he wears in this image is often found in eighteenth-century portraits as the mark of a virtuoso, a refined lover of the arts and sciences. Richardson had a superb collection of 'old master' drawings and promoted drawing as being of equal importance to painting. He wrote 'a pencil [performs]… what cannot be done when one has a variety of colours to manage, especially in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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