Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edgar Evans NPG P1365

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert George Ponting

Strongly built, practical and cheerful, Petty Officer Evans was a natural choice to join Robert Scott on the 1660-mile return trek to the Pole. Following the disappointment of their arrival and suffering from malnutrition, a deep cut to the hand and severe frostbite, he collapsed on 17 February. He died later that day from a suspected brain haemorrhage.
Shortly before the final push for the Pole, Scott wrote affectionately of him: 'Edgar Evans has proved a useful member of our party; he looks... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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