Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry West Betty as Hamlet NPG D31740

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Heath, after James Northcote

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.