Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson NPG x197394

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall

Born in Lincolnshire, Tennyson studied in Louth before attending Trinity College, Cambridge. His early life and poetry were greatly affected by the unexpected death of his friend Arthur Hallam, his elegy to whom, In Memoriam, secured his fame. Tennyson was Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate and the most popular poet of his age. On being awarded a barony by Queen Victoria in 1883, he became the first British writer to be raised to the Peerage. Tennyson's poetry is celebrated for its lyricism and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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