Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Olive Edis NPG x45535

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)

Olive Edis opened her first studio with her sister Katherine in early the 1900s in Sheringham, Norfolk specialising in fisherman and local nobilities. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with sepia platinotypes and pioneered colour autochrome portraits from 1912 onwards. Her sitters included Shaw, Hardy, Balfour, and Mrs Pankhurst. Olive Edis patented her own autochrome viewer. She photographed British Women's services and the battlefields of France and Flanders 1918-19 for the Imperial War Museum.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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