Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson NPG x12998

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Jeffrey

At about the time of this photograph, Tennyson received his first audience with Queen Victoria at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The queen described the meeting in her journal, noting that he was 'very peculiar looking, tall, dark, with a fine head, long black flowing hair and a beard-oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him'. Prince Albert had died the previous year and the queen thanked Tennyson for the comfort that she had found in reading In Memoriam.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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