Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kathleen Ferrier and an unknown sitter NPG 5040(5)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bernard Dunstan

The contralto Kathleen Ferrier was one of the most renowned and popular singers of her generation. Her career was tragically short with little more than a decade separating her discovery, while working as a Post Office telephonist, to her death aged forty-one at the height of her fame. Her distinctive voice was characterised by a natural sound achieved with little formal training. Among her most celebrated performances were roles in Glück's Orfeo ed Euridice, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and Benjamin Britten's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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