Sir Edwin Landseer Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edwin Landseer NPG 835

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Ballantyne

Landseer is shown in the Kensington studio of Italian-born French sculptor Baron Marochetti modelling one of the lions for the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Marochetti cast Landseer's sculptures in bronze. This project occupied him on and off for the eight years between 1858 and 1866 and contributed to the ill health which clouded the last ten years of his life. Known for his amusing and sentimental paintings featuring his pet dogs, Landseer is here attended by a collie. The dog is... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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