Fanny Stirling as the Nurse and Mary Anderson as Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet' Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Fanny Stirling as the Nurse and Mary Anderson as Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet' NPG x79

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Downey, for W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd

Actress. Anderson was born in Sacramento, California and made her stage début in 1875 as 'Juliet' in Louisville, Kentucky. She debuted in New York City in 1877 and in London in 1883 to great popular success. Following a tour of Britain with W.S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea and Comedy and Tragedy, Anderson performed again in London in her own version of The Winter's Tale (1887). In 1890 she married Antonio Fernando de Navarro, a fellow American practising as a barrister in England and settled... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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