Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Patricia Frances Mary Fielden Nemon-Stuart (née Villiers-Stuart); Sir Ernst Chain; Oscar Nemon; Anna ('Nura') Sacharina NPG x195041

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francis Goodman

Photographed in the garden of the Nemons' rented home at West View, Boars Hill, Oxford with a bust of Chain by Nemon in the centre of the group. Oscar Nemon's wife, Patricia had been critically ill in hospital and upon discovering that a distant acquaintance (Chain) was working on penicillin, Nemon rushed to his home, in despair. Penicillin was still at the laboratory stage, but Chain agreed to help Nemon's wife. Nemon's diary recalls: 'He brought the penicillin in its test-tube straight from the laboratory... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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