Sir Charles Barry Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sir Charles Barry NPG 1272
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John Prescott Knight
The leading architect of his generation, Charles Barry worked mostly in a classical or Italianate style but his major achievement was the Gothic-style Houses of Parliament which he designed together with Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. In this portrait Barry is shown with a pair of compasses in his hand, resting his elbow on some partly unrolled architectural plans which lie on top of a Gothic-style cupboard. The plans show the Victoria Tower of the new Houses of Parliament, which can be seen under construction... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










