Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt NPG 993

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Chantrey’s admiration for the famous poet and novelist led him ‘to ask him to sit for me … the only time I ever recollect having asked a similar favour of any one’. The original bust was executed in 1820 and given to Scott in 1828 as ‘a token of esteem’. Contemporaries considered it a fine, good-humoured likeness and Scott was particularly impressed by Chantrey’s use of modern details – like the tartan cape – which updated classical tradition without overstepping the timeless requirements of a… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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