Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jane Morris (née Burden) NPG x19600

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Emery Walker

In 1857, Burden was spotted by artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones in Oxford, and was sought by them as a model. She sat initially for Rossetti and then for William Morris. The two became engaged and married in 1859. Burden was privately educated and recreated herself from the daughter of a stablehand into a lady. She was an accomplished embroiderer and worked with her husband in their furnishings business, embroidering items that he designed. In the late 1860s, Jane began... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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