Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lillah McCarthy as Lady Macbeth in 'Macbeth' NPG x128110

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

McCarthy played Lady Macbeth for the Shakespeare Society at St George's Hall, Exeter, in 1895, a performance given to help raise funds to erect a statue of Sarah Siddons in Paddington. Commenting on her performance, George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Saturday Review , 'She can hold an audience whilst she is doing everything wrongly…some years of hard work would make her a valuable recruit to the London stage'. McCarthy took Shaw's advice literally and following ten years in tutorial exile returned to London as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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