Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The biographers' NPG D12243

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell

In this print a bust of Johnson looks down on the three biographers with displeasure. The inscription makes reference to Piozzi's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786), Boswell's Journal of aTour to the Hebrides (1785), in which Johnson is compared to a bear, and Courtenay's Politic Review of the Literary … Character of the late S. Johnson (1786).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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