Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Sharp NPG 2517

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Esther Blaikie Mackinnon

The founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early twentieth century. On leaving university, he lived in Australia, returning to England in 1892 and taking various posts to support his composing. He first came across English folk music in 1899, and this encounter was a defining moment in his life. He threw himself into collecting, amassing more than 1,500 tunes over the next four years. In 1902, he published A Book of British Song for Home and School, a mixture of 'national'... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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