Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Neapolitan mother and child NPG 3944(25)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

As expatriate British artists visiting and living in Italy travelled through the Italian peninsular, they encountered local characters. Indeed Italian peasants (contadini) are to be found frequently in the artist John Partridge's sketchbook that he kept during his Italian tour between 1823 and 1827. They appear either as characters in landscapes, scenes of everyday life or as individual figure studies. Cradling her baby, the young woman here wears the traditional Neapolitan dress that is frequently worn by the contadinas in Eastlake's paintings of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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