Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles de Sousy Ricketts NPG 2631

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Haslewood Shannon

This sensitive drawing was made shortly after the critical success of the oil portrait of Ricketts. Shannon noted in his diary that it was a study for a double portrait of the pair. The introspective feel of the drawing is at odds with descriptions of Ricketts's restless and eloquent manner but perhaps hints at the loneliness and pessimism that some detected beneath his charismatic exterior. During this period, he was researching his book, The Prado (1903) and later wrote an evocative account of the pair's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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