Sir William Herschel Greetings Card

Regular price £4.00

Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Herschel NPG 4055

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Charles Lochée

Commissioned by Sir William Watson; apparently executed from a life mask according to Herschel's sister's description: 'an awful business it was to see a mass of Gips (i.e. plaster) poured by handfuls on the face ... the head leaning on the back of a Chair at an angle of 45 degrees ... with 2 straws in the nose to prevent suffocation'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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