Edward Carpenter Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Edward Carpenter NPG 2447
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Roger Fry
In 1886, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and C. R. Ashbee invited Edward Carpenter, the sandal-wearing socialist, to lecture in Cambridge. He made a huge impression, not least on Roger Fry, who was then in his second year as an undergraduate. Together with Ashbee, Fry went to visit Carpenter in Derbyshire and they became friends. In 1894, Fry painted this portrait of him, looking suitably raffish, alone in a bleak interior and wearing what Fry called his 'anarchist overcoat'. Following Carpenter's death in 1929, Fry offered... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










