Charles Haslewood Shannon; Charles de Sousy Ricketts Greetings Card

Regular price £4.00

Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Haslewood Shannon; Charles de Sousy Ricketts NPG x6624

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

Painter, printer, designer, writer and collector. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, to an English father and French mother. From an early age he unstintingly pursued a compulsion to live for art. In 1882 he met Charles Shannon with whom he lived for the remainder of his life. Edited and published The Dial (1889-97), produced with Shannon, consisting of poetry, prose and illustrations in a blend of English Pre-Raphaelitism and French Symbolism, it is a key document of the Aesthetic Movement. On reading... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

Read More