Beautiful pack of ten festive cards, each with the same design featuring the oil painting, Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn from the National Galleries of Scotland collection.
Blank message inside with plenty room for your own additional messages and complete with white envelopes for each card. Printed in the United Kingdom on 330gsm FSC mix credit, silk finish card. 10 cards presented in compostable starch bag.
This serene skater is thought to be the Reverend Robert Walker, a member of the Edinburgh Skating Society and minister of the Canongate Kirk. The club, which was the oldest of its kind in Britain, usually skating on frozen lochs (lakes). Walker looks effortless, but this pose would have been recognised by fellow skaters as a difficult and sophisticated manoeuvre. This painting of the Reverend, showing a figure in action, is quite unlike other known portraits by Sir Henry Raeburn.
