Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Peg Woffington NPG 650

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

This unusual sick-bed portrait shows the celebrated Irish actress 'Peg' Woffington, after she collapsed on stage and was paralysed in 1757. During the previous twenty years she had made her name in comedy. She was notorious for bitter rivalries with other actresses - even stabbing one during a performance - and for her love affair with Britain's leading actor, David Garrick. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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