Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning NPG 1899

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Michele Gordigiani

Mrs Browning, like her husband, was a poet and her portrait was painted as a companion piece to that of her husband. According to a label on the back of the frame, it was done 'expressly for Sophia May Eckley and pronounced by Robert Browning to be the best Portrait ever taken of the Poetess' ; but at the time, Robert Browning was not convinced that it was a good likeness and wrote to Mrs Eckley that 'The portrait is not perfect certainly; the nose... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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