Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti NPG 3048

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Jane Morris cared for Rossetti following his breakdown in 1872, but afterwards stopped seeing him, while continuing to correspond. Owing to drugs to combat agitation and insomnia, he grew stout and lethargic. This comic self-image was probably drawn to amuse Jane, who often deplored his gloomy lamentations. 'I will come Tuesday' she wrote on one occasion, 'though you did write me such a nasty letter'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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