Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margot Fonteyn NPG P1167

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bern Schwartz

Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, in 1934 Margot attended the Vic-Wells Ballet School, and by the time she was twenty had danced the lead in three of the great classics: Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She later joined Lilian Baylis's Sadlers Wells Company where she became emotionally involved with Constant Lambert (brother of the sculptor Maurice Lambert), who wrote Horoscope (1938) for her. She danced the lead in his Tiresias (1951). Fonteyn came out of semi-retirement to dance with ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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