Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Walter de la Mare NPG x13379

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hector Ernest Murchison

The poet and writer de la Mare is shown here partially dematerialised, as if a character in one of the ghost stories for which he was already well known. The print was made using a mixture of gum Arabic, potassium dichromate (often called bichromate, a hardening agent), and pigment applied to paper. This mixture hardens when exposed to light under a negative. However, because the gum remains soluble, the process allows the artist to work into the surface until it is dried. In this case,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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