Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin' NPG Ax25093

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano

Bassano advertised his photographs of Sothern in The Times as 'The only authorized CARTES DE VISITE [...] Each card has the name and address at the back.' This was probably a response to illegal copying of his images before the 1862 Copyright Act extended protection to photographs.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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