Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball NPG Ax135794

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Langfier Ltd, published by Hudson & Kearns Ltd

The Duchess of Sutherland was considered one of the great English beauties and a successful society hostess but she was also an advocate for social reform and an author. With the outbreak of war, the Duchess took a Red Cross ambulance unit to France where she set up the No. 9 Red Cross Hospital. In August 1914 she was captured by the Germans but managed to escape. She served with the Red Cross in France for the remainder of the war. In 1917 George... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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