Robert Wood Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Robert Wood NPG 4868
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Allan Ramsay
Ramsay painted this portrait in Rome where Wood was working as tutor to the young Duke of Bridgewater. Wood had already won a reputation as a classical scholar, having led ground-breaking archaeological expeditions to Greece and the Middle East during the early 1750s. He also wrote two key works: the Ruins of Palmyra (1753) and the Ruins of Balbec (1757). These achievements underpin this formal, elegant portrait in which Wood's costume, pose and props, like the map of Greece, communicate the sitter's social and intellectual... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










