Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Richard Steele NPG 3227

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Sir Richard Steele was born in Dublin. After a brief period as a captain in the army, he moved to London where he became a dramatist and an essayist, noted for his contributions to The Tatler (1709-11) and The Spectator (1711-12), which he co-founded with Joseph Addison. In 1705 Steele married Margaret Stretch, a widow from Barbados whose estates included sugar plantations worked on by enslaved Africans. Just over a year later, she died and Steele inherited her fortune. At this time Steele was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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