Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Andrew Lang NPG D9819

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederick Hollyer, after Sir William Blake Richmond

Lang made his mark as a poet, publishing Ballads and Lyrics of Old France in 1872. Further volumes of verse followed. Lang's major contribution lay in the areas of anthropology and folklore. His most important work in this field, Myth, Ritual and Religion, appeared in 1887. He argued that all primitive peoples have essentially the same ideas, tales, customs and beliefs, and that these live on in the form of 'survivals' in the classical myths and traditions of the developed world. He later turned to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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