Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Dickens NPG x45498

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Gurney & Son

Dickens's second visit to America was purely a business enterprise. This is one of a series of photographs that record his urbane appearance during the reading tour he undertook from November 1867 until April 1868. Taken by leading photographers in New York, one of whom, Jeremiah Gurney, was the first to open a photographic gallery in America, they were sold as memoirs to an eager American public. Largely forgiven for the prior criticism he had made of the country in American Notes for General Circulation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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