Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Early Masters’ NPG D28380

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John William Cook, published by John Major

A versatile line engraver, producing portraits, maps, bookplates, series of prints and the occasional broadsheet. His portraits ranged from leaders such as Sir Francis Drake to contemporaries, including the lawyer Sir George Croke. Vaughan may have been interested in alchemical magic: Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum chemicum Britannicum (1652), an anthology of poems on alchemy, is illustrated with Vaughan’s engravings, and throughout his working life he was associated with the alchemist poet Thomas Vaughan. In 1651, Vaughan, a royalist supporter during the civil wars, was… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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