Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Group including Clarkson Stanfield, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Augustus Leopold Egg NPG x45067

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown photographer

This convivial photograph reveals Dickens's network of friends, which included the artists Clarkson Stanfield, Marcus Stone and Augustus Egg, Punch's first editor, Mark Lemon, and the novelist, Wilkie Collins. Clearly the focal character, Dickens, known for his charismatic personality, sits centre stage, in front of the group that includes his daughters, Kate and Mamie, and his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth. Dickens was also on friendly terms with many of his fellow authors, and was particularly influenced by Thomas Carlyle.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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