Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey in costume for the Headgear fancy-dress ball NPG x126386

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Known as the 'Dancing Marquess', Henry Paget converted the chapel of Plas Newydd (renamed Anglesey Castle) into his own Gaiety Theatre. He squandered vast sums on the purchase of jewellery, luxurious goods and fantastic costumes for his theatrical extravaganzas, performed both at his home and on tour to parts of Britain and the Continent. At the time of his early death in 1905, just short of reaching his 30th birthday, The Bystander fulminated: 'His example will remain one of the strongest arguments against our hereditary... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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