Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Johnson NPG 1597

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Massively ungainly and plagued with nervous tics, Dr Johnson was a victim of melancholia and could not bear solitude. He had an immense circle of friends and was one of the greatest conversationalists of all time. This portrait of him as a man of letters was painted by his friend Reynolds shortly after the publication of his Dictionary of the English Language of 1755, a prodigious labour which remains a monument to his scholarship as well as to his forthright personality. It was about this... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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