Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown sitter called Elizabeth Carter NPG D4998

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Raphael Smith, published by James Birchall, after John Kitchingman

Encouraged by her father, a clergyman, to study, Carter applied herself with such perseverance that she became one of the most learned Englishwoman of her time, being mistress of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, besides several modern European languages. She rendered into English De Crousaz's Examen de l'essai de Monsieur Pope sur l'homme (1739); Algarotti's Newtonianismo per le Donne; the works of Epictetus (1758) and wrote a volume of poems. An icon of virtue and learning, Carter was later sought out by aspiring women writers,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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