Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kate Nickleby (character in Dickens novel 'Nicholas Nickleby') NPG D38965

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Holl Jr, published by National Art Union for Ireland, after William Powell Frith

Dickens's narratives provided a ready source of inspiration for artists seeking contemporary subjects. Early in his career, William Powell Frith elected to paint the character of Dolly Varden from Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. This brought him to the attention of Dickens himself. In 1842, the author commissioned two pieces from Frith, one of which was this image of Kate Nickleby, the sister of Nicholas Nickleby, pictured sewing a ball-gown at Madame Mantalini's where she has been forced to work as a seamstress. Its subsequent reproduction... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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