Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry West Betty as Alexander NPG D38607

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by John Thompson, published by Clement Chapple, after Thomas Charles Wageman

When he was nine years old, after seeing Sarah Siddons on the stage in Belfast, William Betty declared that he would die if he could not become an actor. He made his first stage appearance two years later in 1803. For three years Betty enjoyed enormous success as a child star, before adulthood began to reveal his limitations as an actor. He retired from the stage when in his early twenties.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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