Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddal) NPG P1273(2b)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lewis Carroll, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Siddal's life is usually told in terms of her personal relationships, with her professional aspirations minimised. Often modelling as Shakespearean heroines for Walter Deverell, William Hunt and John Millais. By 1853 she had transitioned from model to artist and become romantically involved with her future husband Dante Rossetti. Lacking traditional training, she illustrated subjects from John Keats to William Shakespeare from her imagination. Exhibiting at the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition of 1857, the poet Coventry Patmore commented that her study of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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