Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Dickens NPG 3566

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harry Furniss

This drawing of a prostrate Dickens, which the Punch caricaturist Harry Furniss used to illustrate the chapter he wrote on the author in his book Some Victorian Men (1925), was inspired by popular reports of Dickens being worn out by his intensely emotional readings of Nancy's murder from Oliver Twist. Posthumously, Dickens was often portrayed with the characters he invented materialising around him. Here the murder scene appears on the wall behind, creating the effect of Bill Sikes clubbing the author himself. This motif reflected... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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