Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles John Kean as Louis XI NPG D22397

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard James Lane, published by John Mitchell, after C.S.L.

Determined to become an actor, he made his first appearance at Drury Lane in 1827 as Norval in Home's Douglas, but his failure to achieve popularity led him to leave London the following year for the provinces. His next London appearance was in 1833 as 'Sir Edmund Mortimer' in Colman's The Iron Chest, but his success was still not pronounced enough for him to remain in the capital. In 1838, he returned to Drury Lane, and played Hamlet with a success which placed him... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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