Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Gray NPG D5164

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Henshaw, after William Mason

Poet, classical scholar and letter writer, Gray studied at Eton College from 1725 before entering Cambridge in 1734. From 1739 to 1741, he and his friend Horace Walpole toured the continent where they quarrelled and fell out temporarily. Gray returned to Cambridge where he began seriously writing poetry. Among his most famous poems are Ode to Spring (1748), Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1751) and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747). Gray spent the majority of his life in Cambridge and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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