Robert Dighton Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Dighton NPG 2815

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Dighton

This image was etched and published by Carington Bowles on 9 November 1787. In the etching the portfolio is lettered 'A BOOK OF HEADS BY ROBT. DIGHTON, Portrait Painter and Drawing Master'. Dighton's Book of Heads was published by Carington Bowles in 1795; the etching was used as the frontispiece. Dighton is shown holding a portfolio of drawings and a porte crayon (an instrument used for holding a piece of chalk or crayon).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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