Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Pateshall Monnington NPG P286

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Julia Margaret Cameron

Monnington was a minister of the Church of England, but in 1866 served as a tutor to Alfred Tennyson’s sons, Lionel and Hallam. Tennyson’s friend and neighbour on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron, often photographed the family. In this strikingly modern portrait, the sitter appears wrapped in velvet robes with his features softly drawn, intentionally out of focus. Cameron started taking photographs as an amateur in 1863 at the age of forty-eight, and became one of the leading practitioners of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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