Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Bernard Kops; Erica Kops (née Gordon) and their son Adam Kops NPG x135201

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Bernard Kops was born to Jewish parents in the East End of London, the setting for his first play The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1957). He ran a bookstall at Cambridge Circus, near Gallery One at Litchfield Street. Colin MacInnes used Kops and his wife Erica as models for the characters Mannie and Miriam Katz in his novel Absolute Beginners (1959).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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