Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Harley Granville-Barker NPG P1039

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Bernard Shaw

In 1900 Barker became involved with the Stage Society, run by a group of enthusiasts which presented matinees and readings of unperformed plays. That year he began his formative friendship with Shaw when he played Marchbanks in Shaw's Candida for the society. Both men were members of the Fabian Society and shared the same challenging and idealist objectives. Later as Jack Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman (1905) Barker made himself up to look like Shaw and he became much like his surrogate son.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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