Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Christina Rossetti NPG P1700(11c)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Christina Rossetti is often portrayed through Pre-Raphaelite artworks by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was careful to control the circulation of her image, particularly as she suffered from Graves' disease, which altered her appearance. Elliott & Fry's portrait provides a rare glimpse of Rossetti later in life; her brother William Michael Rossetti claimed that she referred it as 'the idiot.' The photograph was circulated in the 1890s - though it was seldom featured in later biographies, which appear to favour her Pre-Raphaelite idealisation.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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