Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) NPG D13868

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Fairn, published by John Sewell, probably after John Giles Eccardt

Cibber was a celebrated actress who had a long stage partnership with David Garrick. She began singing professionally to support her family in the late 1720s, and was promoted by her brother, the composer Thomas Augustus Arne, and Handel, her music teacher, who composed the contralto songs in The Messiah for her to perform, which she did at its premier in 1742.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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