Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Agnes Garrett NPG x16323

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Olive Edis

Garrett established the first interior design business run by women, working with her cousin Rhoda Garrett. Initially intending to train as architects, the cousins tried for several years to become apprentices, being taken on by the architect J.M. Brydon in 1871. The Garrett's business included designing furniture and wallpapers aimed at middle-class customers with modest incomes, and they ran a school of interior design. With her sisters Elizabeth and Millicent, Agnes Garrett actively campaigned for votes for women, and with Rhoda joined the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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