Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Our Gardener, A Portrait Drawing by Henry Vander Weyde' NPG x197406

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Axon Mansell & Co, after Henry Van der Weyde

A founder member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of those 'who delight in photography soley for it' artistic possibilities', he was a painter turned professional portrait photographer. In 1892 he publicised his photo corrector (Rectograph) causing a stir in the world of photography. In 1877 Van der Weyde became the first photographer to install and take portraits by electric light allowing him to take a lot of portraits in a short period of time. The light was provided by a Crossley gas engine which drove... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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