Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) NPG 3640

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)

The daughter of a valet, Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) was a talented dancing pupil and by the age of ten she was frequently invited to entertain the Austrian aristocracy. In 1746, under her stage name, Violette, she contracted to dance with the Italian Opera Company at the King's Theatre in London, and was at once the talk of the town. She married David Garrick three years later, and their thirty-year marriage was a contented, although childless one. She gave up performing after marriage... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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