Thomas Gainsborough: 24 Cards (Dover Postcards)

This lovely collection includes 24 reproductions in miniature of Gainsborough's finest works, among them Lady Innes (ca. 1758-09), The Harvest Wagon (1767), and his famous The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Ideal for sending brief messages to art-loving friends, these cards can also be framed or simply added to a personal collection. Captions.

Considered one of England's great masters of portraiture and landscape, Thomas Gainsborough (1727 1788) painted, by royal invitation, portraits of King George III and his queen, Charlotte Sophia. A favorite painter of the British aristocracy, he became wealthy through commissions for portraits characterized by the noble and refined grace of the figures, by poetic charm, and by cool and fresh colors.
This lovely card collection includes reproductions in miniature of 24 of the artist's finest works, among them "Lady Innes" (ca. 1758 9), "The Harvest Wagon "(1767), "The Linley Sisters" (1772), "A Rocky Coastal Scene" (1781), "The Three Eldest Princesses" (1784), his famous "The Blue Boy" (ca. 1770) and eighteen others.
Ideal for sending brief messages to art-loving friends and relatives, these cards can also be framed, used as colorful bookmarks, or simply added to a personal collection.
Original Dover (2003) publication."