Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Carter Hall NPG Ax125089

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henri Claudet

Samuel Carter Hall rose to prominence as the editor of the Art Journal and his wife Anna Maria was a popular novelist. Together they compiled A book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age from Personal Acquaintance (1871), described as a 'series of written portraits'. The couple's other project, putting up commemorative plaques on houses (before the official blue plaque scheme was initiated in 1867), reflects a more general growth in interest in personal history during the period.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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