Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Martin-Harvey and his dog NPG x160508

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Actor and theatre manager. A chance visit to a London theatre while he was apprenticed to his father's shipwright business persuaded Harvey to train as an actor. He joined Irving's Lyceum Theatre in 1882 and stayed for fourteen years. After a period as a freelance actor, he ventured into management in February 1899 with The Only Way, an adaptation of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities that proved a phenomenal success, registering over 5000 performances over forty years and guaranteeing Harvey's financial security.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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