Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning NPG x136269

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry, after Macaire

This carte-de-visite, featuring her trademark dark ringlets, is based on an engraving by Thomas Oldham Barlow, itself a reproduction of Macaire's full-length photograph, taken September 1858. The engraving formed the frontispiece to her epic 'verse-novel' of female poetic ambition, Aurora Leigh (1856). In the frontispiece, the poet stands next to a desk. In Elliot & Fry’s vignette, Barrett Browning's role as a writer is deemphasised.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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