Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edith Hart-Davis (Wallace), later Lady Brougham and Vaux ('Mrs Richard Hart-Davis as Ariel') NPG x11660

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Yevonde

Yevonde originally intended this photograph of Edith Hart-Davis to represent Andromeda by including her chained wrists prominently in the composition. However when she saw the intensity of the image once it was printed up she decided it might more appropriately represent the weightlessness and velocity of a flying spirit, namely Ariel. This spirit of the Air who appears in Shakespeare's The Tempest was imprisoned in a pine tree by the witch Sycorax. The spirit remained there until the release by the superior power of Prospero,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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