Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘The Independent Shoe-Black’ NPG Ax201353

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Thomson

For ten years between 1862 and 1872 Thomson travelled in the Far East, establishing portrait studios in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as recording the topography and ethnography of Cambodia and China, which earned him the nickname ‘China Thomson’. Thomson is now best known for his pioneering work of social documentation, published in monthly parts, with texts by Adolphe Smith, of portraits of London tradespeople, Street Life in London (1877). Thomson subsequently operated fashionable portrait studios in London, the last being operated in partnership… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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