Paper
A sheet made from plant fibres used as a support for writing, drawing and printing on. Until about 1800 European paper was hand-made from the fibres of boiled rags and linen, and the best quality drawing-paper today is still made in this traditional way. Less expensive papers are machine-made of a mixture of cotton, hemp, esparto and wood pulp.
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
by Unknown artist
inscribed 1582
NPG 6343
Jonathan Richardson
by Jonathan Richardson
October 1735
NPG 3779
Mr Fox and his Friends
by William Lane
circa 1813
NPG 2076
Sir George Hayter
by Sir George Hayter
1821
NPG 3082(5)
Hannah More
by Augustin Edouart
1827
NPG 4501
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by William Holman Hunt
1853
NPG 2914
Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne
by Ithell Colquhoun
1934
NPG 5269
Somerset Maugham
by Graham Sutherland
1953
NPG 5328
Pandit Ram Gopal
by Feliks Topolski
circa 1972
NPG 6812
Allen Jones
by Clive Barker
1984
NPG 5878
Elvis Costello
by Adam Birtwistle
1996
NPG 6460
Sir David Hare
by Dame Paula Rego
2005
NPG 6746