Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Eliot NPG 1405

© National Portrait Gallery, London

replica by François D'Albert Durade

Eliot's own writings indicate that she was less suspicious of sitting to the portrait painter than the photographer, perhaps because of the photograph’s unlimited reproducibility which could become the object of the gaze of so many people. Visiting Geneva in 1850 she wrote to a friend: ‘You will be amused to hear that I am sitting for my portrait’. The result was two portraits by the Swiss artist François D'Albert Durade, of which this one is the second. She nevertheless wrote that they were painted... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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