Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Isabella Beeton (Mrs Beeton) NPG P3

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Maull & Polyblank

On the 3rd of February 1932 Henry Hake, then Director of the National Portrait Gallery, was interested to read an article about Isabella Beeton in the The Times. It aimed to dispel the popular idea that the author of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, who had died in 1865, was ‘stout, stern and frumpy’. Indeed, the author wrote, the portraits of Beeton owned by her children revealed her to have been ‘a beautiful young woman with a face that indicates her keen intelligence’.
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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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