Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson NPG 3847

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Woolner

The Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner met Tennyson in the late 1840s and made a first, unsuccessful, medallion portrait of him in 1850. The type here is one of a number of casts based on a medallion which Woolner began while staying with the Tennysons at Farringford on the Isle of Wight in 1855. It was widely admired by the poet's family and friends, Browning thinking that 'no likeness could possibly be better', James Spedding calling it 'magnificent', and Tennyson's wife Emily praised its... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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