Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Dickens NPG P301(19)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Watkins

This portrait, along with NPG P301(20), represents the dual aspects of Dickens's high-profile career, first as a writer and then, from 1858, as a public reader of his works. They mark the assured celebrity the author had attained by this point in the mid-nineteenth century. While Daniel Maclise's early portrait of Dickens captures a romantic image of the handsome young writer enjoying the first taste of fame, Watkins records the confident stance of the established author who had already become a household name... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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