Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Valentine Green NPG D14170

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel Freeman, published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, after Lemuel Francis Abbott

Green trained under Robert Hancock, a Worcester engraver, after which he moved to London and began working as a mezzotint engraver. He began to exhibit with the Incorporated Society of Artists from 1766, became a fellow a year later and a director in 1771. He was appointed mezzotint engraver to the king in 1773, and the following year was elected an associate engraver with the Royal Academy. Throughout the 1770s and 1780s, Green's engraving practice flourished. In the 1790s, however, several of his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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