Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edith Cavell NPG 5322

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Eleanor M. Ross

Physical description

Half-length with face and eyes to viewer.


Description

This work was undertaken by Eleanor M. Ross, a Member of the Society of Miniaturists, London, who is best known for this portrait of Edith Cavell. It was once owned by Queen Alexandra, the wife of Edward VII, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1917. Ross completed this portrait after the death of the sitter and presented Cavell in an ideal way, with a nun-like veil and as a modern-day saint.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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