Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Wordsworth NPG 1857

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Benjamin Robert Haydon

This portrait depicts Wordsworth aged seventy-two. It was painted to commemorate a sonnet that he had composed on climbing the peak of Helvellyn, after seeing Haydon's picture of Wellington musing on the Battlefield of Waterloo. Wordsworth was pleased with Haydon's heroic image, describing it as 'a likeness of me, not a mere matter-of-fact portrait, but one of a poetical character.'

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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