Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Horace Walpole NPG D5426

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by D.P. Pariset, after Pierre-Étienne Falconet

The youngest son of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, Horace Walpole was one of the eighteenth century’s most famous writers, collectors and socialites. A pioneer of the Gothic taste in art, architecture and literature, he formed an exceptional collection at Strawberry Hill, the ‘little Gothic castle’ which he designed in Twickenham. His literary works include the first history of English art, Anecdotes of Painting, 1762, and the Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, 1764. Walpole was a great socialite and his collected letters… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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