Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Richard Francis Burton NPG 1070

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton

This austere, ponderous and intense image of one of the great explorers of Victorian England captures his slightly brutal character very effectively. The artist Frederic Leighton met Burton in 1869 while they were taking a cure at Vichy and they formed a firm friendship which lasted until Burton's death. On 26 April 1872, Burton began sitting for his portrait. According to Lady Burton, he was extraordinarily difficult about it, anxious that his necktie and pin might be omitted and pleading with the artist, 'Don't make... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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