Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Augustus Sala NPG x38837

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Imperial Photographic Co

This photograph complements Vernon Lee's description of sala as 'a red, bloated, bottle-nosed creature'. He was unashamed of his reputation for overindulgence and even courted it with essays such as Breakfast in Bed, or Philosophy Between the Sheets, a series of indigestible discourses'(1863). At about time of this photograph, Sala's celebrity was such that his waxwork at Madame Tussaud's was flanked by Tennyson and Dickens.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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