Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Eliot NPG 669

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Frederic William Burton

This chalk portrait shows Eliot in her mid-forties. It was made by the artist Frederic Burton, a close friend of Eliot’s which may account for the closely-cropped, full-frontal and altogether more intimate portrayal of her face. Unlike her reaction to other portraits, particularly photographs, Eliot seems not to have recoiled from Burton’s image or the process of sitting to him, taking an interest in how the portrait developed over the course of a year. In December 1865, she told the artist D'Albert Durade that her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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