Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Browning NPG 1898

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Michele Gordigiani

Although he is not much read today, Browning is regarded as one of the greatest Victorian poets. This portrait of him was commissioned by an American admirer, Sophia Eckley, when Browning and his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning were living in Florence. Mrs Eckley was determined that it would be the best available likeness of him and wrote on the stretcher that Browning described it as an 'Incomparable Portrait by far the best ever taken'. It is certainly suggestive of his intense and cerebral character;... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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