Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘The Belle of Mayfair’ NPG x160485

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd, published by Davidson Brothers

Although born in Denmark, she made her stage debut in the chorus of The Defender in New York, 1902. She came to London, where her beauty caused a sensation; hailed as the epitome of the ‘Gibson Girl’, the ideal created by the American artist Charles Dana Gibson. In 1905 Leslie Stiles wrote a song for her, ‘Why Do They Call Me A Gibson Girl?’ . Parts followed in The Catch of the Season (1905), and The Belle of Mayfair (1906). She retired to marry… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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