Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake NPG D36064

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

In 1838, she went to visit her sister in Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia). She stayed until 1841 and her letters were published as A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841). The success of this travel book led to writing for various magazines, including another anonymous piece on 'Lady Travellers' in the Quarterly Review in 1845. Elsewhere she attacked Jane Eyre, which she was sure was by a man and wrote various articles on art history. In 1849 she married Sir Charles... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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