Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Fanny Kemble NPG D5159

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jean Gigoux, printed by Lemercier, after Sir Thomas Lawrence

A successful actress from a theatrical family; her father was Charles Kemble and her aunt, Sarah Siddons. Following a string of London hits she travelled to America. There she married an American planter, Pierce Butler, in 1834. Visiting his estates in Georgia, she was appalled that the source of his wealth was slavery and tried to alleviate the suffering she found there. They divorced in 1848-9. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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