Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Eliot NPG 1232

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Caroline Bray

This watercolour is the earliest known portrait of Eliot. It was made from life by her friend Cara Bray when she was twenty-two and known to her friends as Mary Ann (she had dropped the 'e' from her name in 1837). Eliot did not believe that a portrait could ever provide an accurate representation of a person’s facial expression or their true character. She wrote that the 'benevolence' with which Bray had apparently painted her 'extends to the hiding of faults in my visage, as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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