Olive Edis (6 results)

Condition: Very Good. Paperback. No notes or highlights. Light shelf-wear. Used - Very Good.

Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition, one month after the first. 8vo. pp [346]; portrait frontispiece and two plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, slightly bubbling to cloth on upper board and stain to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket featuring a photo-collage of the imaginary artist and her family. Large section of front panel of jacket detached, but present, losses to spine ends, edges nicked and chipped. Despite these faults, the book presents really well in Brodart jacket protector. A strong Association copy of Sieveking's imaginary biography of Charlotte Castleton, a successful fin de siècle artist and the first woman R.A., aptly inscribed to another important British artist, the studio portrait photographer Olive Edis. Sieveking's lengthy and somewhat cryptic inscription to the flyleaf is executed in turquoise ink and playfully headed "St Leonards-on-Sea July 11th 1912". He writes, "Darling Olive, I offer you this work full of bluebells, and we will come back, when you have read it, by the Circular Route. Please have some nice warm friendly memories of me - or even more - as I have of you". He signed of "My Love" followed by "Lance". Lance Sieveking (1896-1972) was a pioneering BBC producer and author. He sat for Ellis (1876-1955) several times in the 1920s. Indeed, she photographed many influential figures across her career, including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1909), Thomas Hardy (1914), David Lloyd George (1917), Nancy Astor (1920) and Emmeline Pankhurst (1920). In 1912 (the year of Sieveking's imaginary date of inscription) Ellis became "one of the first women to use autochromes, responding sensitively to their rich colours and inventing her own viewer" (ODNB). The following year she won a Royal Photographic Society medal with her autochrome 'Portrait Study' and became a member of the Society in 1914. She was appointed an official war artist in 1918, photographing British Women's Services and the battlefields of France and Flanders for the Imperial War Museum. Second edition, one month after the first. 8vo. pp [346]; portrait frontispiece and two plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, slightly bubbling to cloth on upper board and stain to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket featuring a photo-collage of the imaginary artist and her family. Large section of front panel of jacket detached, but present, losses to spine ends, edges nicked and chipped. Despite these faults, the book presents really well in Brodart jacket protector. A strong Association copy of Sieveking's imaginary biography of Charlotte Castleton, a successful fin de siècle artist and the first woman R.A., aptly inscribed to another important British artist, the studio portrait photographer Olive Edis. Sieveking's lengthy and somewhat cryptic inscription to the flyleaf is executed in turquoise ink and playfully headed "St Leonards-on-Sea July 11th 1912". He writes, "Darling Olive, I offer you this work full of bluebells, and we will come back, when you have read it, by the Circular Route. Please have some nice warm friendly memories of me - or even more - as I have of you". He signed of "My Love" followed by "Lance". Lance Sieveking (1896-1972) was a pioneering BBC producer and author. He sat for Ellis (1876-1955) several times in the 1920s. Indeed, she photographed many influential figures across her career, including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1909), Thomas Hardy (1914), David Lloyd George (1917), Nancy Astor (1920) and Emmeline Pankhurst (1920). In 1912 (the year of Sieveking's imaginary date of inscription) Ellis became "one of the first women to use autochromes, responding sensitively to their rich colours and inventing her own viewer (ODNB). The following year she won a Royal Photographic Society medal with her autochrome 'Portrait Study' and became a member of the Society in 1914. She was appointed an official war artist in 1918, photographing British Women's Services and the battlefields of France and Flanders for. Book.

Original Photograph. Condition: Good. size of image 13.75 x 19cm. Approx size of mount 18.5 x 23.5 cm. Approx. Condition; Photograph Good, with 3 tiny flecks on jacket from making the photo and some white to edges again looks from making . mount brown card very good, embossed front 'Olive & Katherine Edis, Sherringham, Norfolk' & rear very good and clean. Undated but must be 1905-1907, as taken by Olive Edis and her sister Katharine, the sisters opened their studio in 1905 but Katherine left in 1907 to marry. There were a number of people with the name Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness. This is Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness (18611915) who founded the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1888 and co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904. He was the son of another famous Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness 1835- 1910, a preacher and missionary. This Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness was a missionary doctor. He took over from his father and was most famous as after he had established the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1889, he was promised action by King Leopold II of Belgium later in 1895, to stop all the evil treatment in the Congo but nothing changed, so in 1904 the RBMU published a booklet Congo Slavery by Henry Grattan Guinness, which helped force King Leopold to end his private rule in the Congo in 1908. This is from Olive Edis own personal collection. Undated about 1910. Olive Edis, (Mary Olive Edis, later Edis-Galsworthy ) 1876 - 1955 was one of England's most important pioneer female photographers. Olive preferred to use natural light for her photographs, which makes her portraits so natural and well loved, she was famous for portrait photography. . She was also the only woman photographer who served as a war artist in World War I, and then commissioned to record the work of the Women's Services at the end of the First World War. This is from a small collection we purchased a number of years ago, at the last ever sale of Olive Edis own personal collection, They are all from Edis's studio and house in Sheringham, in Norfolk. Since her death they were under the ownership of Cyril Nunn who was famous for not letting anyone see them, he died in 2008, but before he died he gave them to a local Norfolk dealer to sell them, Most sold direct to museums & a few dealers around the world. These were some of the leftovers after the dealer retired and put the remains in a local auction where we purchased a few lots of numerous photographs. So this is the first time this photograph has come on the market as a single item.

Original Photograph. Condition: Very Good. size of image 13.75 x 19cm. Approx size of mount 20.5 x 32.5 cm. Approx. Condition; Photograph Very Good. mount cream thin card very good, very minimal ageing, embossed front 'Olive Edis' & rear very good with minimal dirt, printed/stamped. 'M. Olive Edis F.R.P.S. studios at Sheringham, Norfolk, Farnham, Surrey, Home Address. 34, Colville Terrace, London, W.'. undated c1910. The National Portrait Gallery has the same image but slightly smaller, NPG details from net; Henry ('Harry') Grattan Guinness by Olive Edis, platinum print, 1910s, 6 1/2in. x 4 3/4in. (164 mm x 119 mm), Photographs Collection, ref NPG x15412. Henry ('Harry') Grattan Guinness(1861-1915). There were a number of people with the name Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness. This is Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness (18611915) who founded the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1888 and co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904. He was the son of another famous Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness 1835- 1910, a preacher and missionary. This Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness was a missionary doctor. He took over from his father and was most famous as after he had established the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1889, he was promised action by King Leopold II of Belgium later in 1895, to stop all the evil treatment in the Congo but nothing changed, so in 1904 the RBMU published a booklet Congo Slavery by Henry Grattan Guinness, which helped force King Leopold to end his private rule in the Congo in 1908. This is from Olive Edis own personal collection. Undated about 1910. Olive Edis, (Mary Olive Edis, later Edis-Galsworthy ) 1876 - 1955 was one of England's most important pioneer female photographers. Olive preferred to use natural light for her photographs, which makes her portraits so natural and well loved, she was famous for portrait photography. . She was also the only woman photographer who served as a war artist in World War I, and then commissioned to record the work of the Women's Services at the end of the First World War. This is from a small collection we purchased a number of years ago, at the last ever sale of Olive Edis own personal collection, They are all from Edis's studio and house in Sheringham, in Norfolk. Since her death they were under the ownership of Cyril Nunn who was famous for not letting anyone see them, he died in 2008, but before he died he gave them to a local Norfolk dealer to sell them, Most sold direct to museums & a few dealers around the world. These were some of the leftovers after the dealer retired and put the remains in a local auction where we purchased a few lots of numerous photographs. So this is the first time this photograph has come on the market as a single item. Please note this photograph was originally taken 1905-1907 as we have another copy for sale embossed front 'Olive & Katherine Edis, Sherringham, Norfolk' Undated but must be 1905-1907, as the sisters opened their studio in 1905 but Katherine left in 1907 to marry made, the other copy is not as good as this as has minor faults in the production. Size: 13.75 x 19cm. Approx. Photograph.

Photograph. Condition: Fine. Sepia tone portrait photograph on original studio mount (image size 6" x 8"; overall size 6-11/16" x 9-1/8") SIGNED and dated 1913 by Hardy at the foot of the mount. A profile portrait of Hardy in his 73rd year, seated at his desk with pen in hand, poised above a tablet of papers. Edis was a pioneering female photographer who began her craft in 1900 and went on to spend 50 years producing portraits of royalty, members of high society, as well as the likes of village fishermen. She was the first female war photographer for the Imperial War Museum and documented the work of women in France and Belgium in the aftermath of World War I. Florence Hardy remarked about this portrait: "No photograph could be more natural or give a better idea of how he looked as he sat at work in his study" (See FISHERMEN & KINGS, THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF OLIVE EDIS by Alistair Murphy and Elizabeth Elmore. Norfolk Museums Service, 2017).

Original photograph of Alice Emily 3rd Countess of Leicester (nee Hon. Alice Emily White) by Olive Edis printed on mount front " Olive Edis F.R.P.S." /printed rear name & studio Sheringham & Ladbrooke Sq address, in ink "3rd Countess of Leicester GBE in the great library at Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk. Taken in 1930. D of 2nd Lord Annaly". Actual size of photograph 15 x 20 cm . Same size (slightly lighter) image in National Portrait Gallery by Eddis. Olive Edis, (Mary Olive Edis, later Edis-Galsworthy ) 1876 - 1955 is one of England's most important pioneer female photographers. Olive preferred to use natural light for her photographs, which make her portraits so natural and so well loved. Condition good, though moving and examining it under sunlight, there is a minor surface mark, some dirt to mount front/rear. She was a British photographer famous for portrait photography. With an amazing circle of Edwardian Society sitters, including aristocratic & Royalty (many Royal photographs are so natural, not the usual "stiff" portraits by most photographers). She was also the only woman photographer who served as a war artist in World War I. Also commissioned to record the work of the Women's Services at the end of the First World War. The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) holds 418 of her photographs/portraits. This is one of number of Olive's photographs I have on & will put on. They are all from Edis's studio and house in Sheringham, in Norfolk. Since her death were under the ownership of Cyril Nunn who died in 2008.and have been sold at a few auctions since. By prior arrangement I may be able show you the photograph at fairs I do in Norfolk, Long Melford & London inc. the London Photograph fairs. Please note too large for scanner. Size: 25.5 x 36cm Approx Inc Mount. Photograph.