Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lewis Carroll and his family at Croft Rectory NPG P32

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge

Dodgson created his famous pen name from his own: the Latin for 'Charles' is 'Carolus', thus 'Carroll'; 'Lutwidge' (Dodgson's mother's maiden name) = 'Ludwig', the German for 'Lewis'. Dodgson became an undergraduate of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851 and, when he took up photography in 1856, was a Student (Fellow) and Mathematics Lecturer of the college. He published many pamphlets on academic affairs, as well as on mathematics, and, despite his stammer, occasionally preached in church. Dodgson remained at Christ Church throughout his life and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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