Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Gielgud as Richard II in 'Richard of Bordeaux' NPG x11659

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Madame Yevonde

Born into a theatrical tradition - Ellen Terry was his great aunt and his father's Polish grandmother was also an actress. He made his professional debut in 1921 at the Old Vic and it was there that his performances in Richard II and Hamlet in 1929 propelled him to fame. Gielgud's fame before the War was as a Shakespearean actor and director, skills he re-deployed in the triumphant one-man Shakespeare recital, Ages of Man, with which he toured the world in 1959. A... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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