Sir John Vanbrugh Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Vanbrugh NPG 3231

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Both Kneller and the architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh were members of the Kit-cat Club, a club established by the publisher Jacob Tonson, which originally met in a tavern near Temple Bar kept by Christopher Cat and from 1703 onwards sometimes met in Tonson's house at Barn Elms near Putney. It was essentially a drinking club but, as often happens in clubs, attracted a group of like-minded individuals united by politics (they were almost all Whigs) and by intellectual and artistic interests. So this... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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