Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maud Allan dancing to 'Mendelssohn's Spring Song' NPG x198342

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd

Canadian dancer, Allan trained as a musician before developing a unique expressive style of dance, performing barefoot and in loose garments. She made her debut in Vienna in 1903 and achieved fame (and notoriety) with her sensational Vision of Salome, which she first performed at the Palace Theatre, London, 1908. She toured widely during the First World War but her career came to an end when, after losing a libel trial in 1918, she was exposed as the sister of a murderer and shunned by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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