Florence Smithson as O Hana San in 'The Mousmé' (The Maids in Japan) Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Florence Smithson as O Hana San in 'The Mousmé' (The Maids in Japan) NPG x101594
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Bassano Ltd
Smithson is shown here in her role as Hana in The Mousmé (Shaftesbury Theatre, 1911), a noble Geisha girl, who works in a tea-house to pay off her lover's gambling debts. The fashion for all things Japanese had been launched in London back in the 1860s, but continued right up until the First World War.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










