Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles John Kean; Ellen Terry as Leontes and Mamillius in 'The Winter's Tale' NPG x7954

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Martin Laroche (William Henry Silvester)

Terry’s acting career spanned sixty-nine years and she achieved her greatest distinction in playing Shakespearian roles. In this early photograph, Terry is dressed for her debut stage role as Mamillius in a long-running production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at the Princess's Theatre in London alongside Kean, the leading actor-manager of the period, who played Leontes. Terry performed her role 102 times, and a review in The Times described her performance as 'vivacious and precocious'. The period costumes worn here demonstrate Kean’s enthusiasm for historical... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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