Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Amelia Opie NPG 1081

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pierre-Jean David D'Angers, cast by Louis Richard

Cast by the sculptor's founder, Louis Richard. Mrs Opie visited Paris in 1829, becoming a particular friend of David D'Angers. 'My next hero', she wrote home, 'is no General but a sculpteur libéral, the first man of his class here who before I saw him was desirous of making a medal of me for having made him cry his eyes out by my works. Malgré moi, he has made me en medaille, me and my petit bonnet which the artists here say looks like... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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