Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ronald Duncan and an unknown man NPG x88939

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Born in Rhodesia, writer and playwright Duncan was a pacifist, and in 1937 wrote the words for the Pacifist March, composed by Benjamin Britten for the Peace Pledge Union. They worked together again after the Second World War when he wrote the libretto for Britten's chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia (1946). Although surprised when replaced by Eric Crozier, who worked with Britten on his next opera Albert Herring (1947), Duncan and Britten remained friends, and in 1949 Britten provided incidental music for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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