Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

W.H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood; Stephen Spender NPG x2948

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

This group portrait, taken in Howard Coster's London studio, was one of fifteen poses showing Auden and his fellow writers Isherwood and Spender. Auden had known Isherwood since childhood and met Spender, who had published his first set of poems, at Oxford. At this time Auden and Isherwood were collaborating on several works, including the plays The Ascent of F6 and On the Frontier. Earlier in 1937, Auden had spent two months in Valencia working for the Spanish republic in the civil war. His experiences... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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