Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Anne Isabella, Lady Byron NPG D11135

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel Freeman, published for Henry Colburn, after Unknown artist

Anne Isabella Milbanke was a well-educated young woman with an interest in theology and mathematics. She was a friend of the actress Sarah Siddons, the novelist Maria Edgeworth and other members of fashionable literary society who frequented her family home. She began a correspondence with Byron in 1812 and, encouraged by her aunt Lady Melbourne, agreed to marry him in 1815. Lady Melbourne was keen to distract the poet from her daughter-in-law Lady Caroline Lamb with whom he had been... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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