Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edward Elgar, Bt NPG x14360

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Lambert

Largely self-taught, Elgar came to prominence in the 1890s with high-profile commissions including the Imperial March for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897). His international breakthrough came with the orchestral Enigma Variations, 1899, a series of musical portraits of his wife and friends. His reputation as a leading British composer was confirmed the following year with The Dream of Gerontius. Other works include the Pomp and Circumstance marches, 1901-7, the Violin Concerto, 1910, and the Cello Concerto, 1919, compositions which have won him renewed popularity... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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