Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Bt NPG 2394

© National Portrait Gallery, London

copy by George Perfect Harding, after Benjamin Burnell

Brydges trained as a barrister but never practised. An interest in topography and antiquities led to his editing the Topographer magazine and publishing his Topographical Miscellanies (1792). He also published some significant bibliographical works, including Censura Literaria (1805-09) and Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (1814-16). Brydges was related to many noble houses and, in 1789, he persuaded his elder brother to claim the recently extinct barony of Chandos. The claim was unsuccessful, but after his brother's death,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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