Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt NPG D20414

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Benjamin William Crombie, published by Rudolph Ackermann

The Edinburgh-born poet, novelist and critic Scott was an immensely successful writer before turning to the great historical romances for which he is now best known. Works like Waverley (1814) and Rob Roy (1817) had a seminal impact on the creation of Scotland’s national identity. A passionate Tory, a proud landowner and a co-founder of the Quarterly Review, with Byron, Scott was among the most popular and commercially successful writers of his age. Although a prolific novelist of great influence, his later years were… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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