Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Ewart Gladstone NPG x5885

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rupert Potter

Beatrix Potter recounted the occasion of this sitting: 'Papa has been photographing old Gladstone this morning at Mr. Millais'. [...] They kept off politics of course, and talked about photography. Mr. Gladstone talked of it on a large scale, but not technically. What would it come to, how far would the art be carried, did papa think people would ever be able to photograph in colours?' Taken in John Everett Millais's studio during the third sitting for the 'Rosebery' portrait, the second of Millais's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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