Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Leslie Stephen NPG x128766

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

At the time these photographs were taken, Stephen was working on his final book. It was a biography of Thomas Hobbes, about whom he evidently enjoyed writing: 'a dour cynical old gentleman, and therefore…just suited to me'. Long after his death, Virginia Woolf memorably described her father: 'he was beautiful in the distinguished way a race horse, even an ugly race horse, is beautiful'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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