Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Eliza Cook NPG Ax21896

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

This is a charismatic portrait of the working-class poet Eliza Cook. Cook was a popular poet whose poem The Old Armchair (1838) made her a household name. She also wrote Chartist poems and edited her own weekly journal. Here, Cook confidently engages the viewer with a direct gaze, her quill pen raised as if contemplating a poem. Her Byronic white collar lends an air of masculinity.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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