Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Somerville NPG 5379

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pierre-Jean David D'Angers

D'Angers approached Somerville early in 1833, eager to model her profile for his portrait series.This medallion was made on the eve of publication of Somerville's immensely successful, On the Connection of the Physical Sciences (1834). Somerville records that the sculptor executed the model in a wonderfully short time' but that some did not favour the effect of the finished bronze, finding it 'very hard' and 'too unfeminine'. As if to authenticate the likeness, D'Angers has reproduced the sitter's autograph; he often employed this device to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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