Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori) NPG P1273(26e)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lewis Carroll

She is noted for her family connections more than in her own right. The daughter of Italian exile Gaetano Polidori and sister of John Polidori, Lord Byron's physician, she married the Italian exile Gabriele Rossetti in London. Her two sons, Gabriel Charles Dante (later known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti) and William Michael were among the co-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Frances sat for Gabriel for some of his early paintings. Her youngest child, Christina Georgina, became famous as a poet and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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