Marianne North Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Marianne North NPG D42434

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by T. Bailey, after Aldham & Aldham

Marianne North travelled the globe in order to satisfy her passion for painting the world's fauna and flora. Having first travelled with her widowed father, after his death she took up a peripatetic life, painting the flowers of the many countries she visited. In the course of her travels, North crossed every continent and had four new species of plant named after her. Her focus, however, was always on painting; she was primarily a painter who travelled, rather than a traveller who painted. She presented... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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