Lily Elsie Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lily Elsie NPG x126283

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd

Beaton's photographs of the costumes he designed for My Fair Lady on the New York and London stage and for the Oscar-winning film drew on his Edwardian photographs and cuttings. Audrey Hepburn's Ascot dress was inspired by a Gaby Deslys concoction, and the gown Hepburn wore to the Embassy Ball was inspired by Lily Elsie at the time of The Merry Widow (1907). Constance Drever's costume for Nightbirds (1911) was used in reverse for a design for one of the extras in a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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