Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson NPG D34498

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Oldham Barlow, published by Fine Art Society Ltd, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt

The Pre-Raphaelite artist Millais read Tennyson's poems and produced paintings, drawings and illustrations from them. He recalled that, 'from my earliest days I have been a worshipper of his words'. This fine engraving is after his 1881 portrait, which Millais conceived as one of a sequence of eminent men. Millais was pleased with the portrait, 'without immodesty, I am sure [it] is the best of him'. Tennyson however, was less impressed, saying, 'It has neither brain nor a soul, and I have both'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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