Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Frederick Ashton NPG 5866

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Austin Bennett

Ashton created his first ballet A Tragedy of Fashion in 1926. Choreographing several pieces for the Vic-Wells Ballet he joined the company in 1935. As resident choreographer, he worked with the young Fonteyn, who became his muse. Among his greatest ballets are Symphonic Variations (1946), Scènes de Ballet (1948), La Fille mal gardée (1960), The Dream (1964), and A Month in the Country (1976). Knighted in 1962, he became director of the company the following year. In 1970 he was made a Companion of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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