Sir Charles Barry Greetings Card

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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.

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