Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Wordsworth NPG 104

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and after Henry William Pickersgill

This painting was an unusual addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection when it was purchased in 1860. This is because it was painted posthumously, and the Gallery’s preference has always been for portraits made from life. Pickersgill likely began the painting shortly after Wordsworth’s death (1850), as it was ready for exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1851. He relied upon a much earlier portrait of Wordsworth that he had undertaken for St John’s College Cambridge, which the poet had attended from 1787 to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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