Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gordon Jacob NPG 5760

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Juliet Pannett

Composer and teacher. Jacob studied at the Royal College of Music and joined the teaching staff there on graduation, where he remained until his retirement in 1966. He was a composer across different musical genres and was a popular choice for festival commissions. Jacob became known to a wider audience during World War II through his humorous arrangement of popular tunes for Tommy Handley's weekly radio comedy show ITMA. In the increasingly avant-garde cultural landscape of the 1960s, Jacob's work found popularity abroad and with... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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