Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson NPG D34497

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frank Short, after George Frederic Watts

The artist George Frederic Watts was a passionate admirer of Tennyson and his works. He produced seven portraits of the poet from a painting in 1857 to the colossal bronze memorial statue erected in Lincoln in 1905. This engraving is after Watts's second, and widely considered his best, portrait of the poet. Watts sought more than a surface likeness of his friend; commenting that he tried to capture 'the shape and colour of a mind and life'. This picture soon acquired the title... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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