Richard Mead Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Richard Mead NPG 15
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Allan Ramsay, and studio of Allan Ramsay
Mead was a major collector of rare books and classical statues. He is shown here with a bust which he described as the poet Homer and a full-length statue which probably represents Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing.
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.










