Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Algernon Charles Swinburne NPG 2216

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

Swinburne's portrait featured in the 21 November 1874 Vanity Fair magazine's 'Men of The Day', with the accompanying article praising his poetic talent: 'For imagination, for variety and force of fleshy images, and for agility and ingenuity in the ordering of the bits of coloured glass of the poetic kaleidoscope.' It described his personality as 'nervous, excitable, explosive, rebellious, graphic, and ready in revolt against all revealed religions and moralities.' Swinburne's biographer Edmund Gosse believed this watercolour to be 'the best surviving record of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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