Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Rogers NPG 4921

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Edwin Landseer

Landseer's caricatures of Rogers are among his most biting and satirical. Here Rogers greets a monkey with apparent fraternal recognition. Rogers's poetry was highly praised in his lifetime and he was offered the Laureateship on the death of Wordsworth in 1850. Yet, it was frequently his appearance that attracted comment. Lord Byron wrote malicious lines about him and Sydney Smith offended him by suggesting that the only way he could sit for a portrait was if he covered his face in an attitude of prayer.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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