Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dora Carrington NPG 6736

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Dora Carrington

This self-portrait is undated, but is thought to have been made around 1910. In that year Carrington entered the Slade, dropped her first name (which she hated), and cropped her hair - thus becoming one of the first 'cropheads', as Virginia Woolf called them. The portrait depicts Carrington prior to her adoption of the short hairstyle that became something of a trademark. It thus shows her around the age of seventeen, though the features are rendered with a penetrating sensitivity that belies the artist's youth.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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