Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Ladies of Llangollen' (Sarah Ponsonby; Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor Butler) NPG D7815

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard James Lane, after Lady Mary Leighton (née Parker)

Both Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby were from Anglo-Irish, land-owning families. They first decided to elope and live together in 1778 but were overtaken at Waterford and prevented. Later that year their families consented and they moved to Wales to settle at Plas Newydd in Llangollen where they remained for nearly fifty years. Highly eccentric, they dressed in riding habits and wore their hair cropped, giving them a distinctive masculine appearance. They were seen as a model of perfect friendship, and their story appealed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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