Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Walter Crane as Cimabue NPG x131224

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Emery Walker

Sir Emery Walker's photographs of Walter Crane are a testament to the enduring appeal of fancy dress amongst artistic circles, and to the intellectual interests that underpinned these masquerades. A notable distinction of the nineteenth-century society's engagement with medievalism was their use of costume as a means of manifesting the past. Walter Crane was a leading illustrator and decorative artist, whose work encouraged a Medieval revival. The source of the imagery for this picture dates back to 1884, when Crane devised a tableau vivant celebrating... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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