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Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth) (1888-1976), Actress

Sitter associated with 26 portraits
Actress; appeared primarily on stage, but in films from 1949; a memorable Lady Bracknell in the 1953 film of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

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6930

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Alfred Aaron Wolmark
pen and ink, 1926
NPG 6930

P806

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 27 February 1976
NPG P806

x11654

The cast of 'As You Like It'

by Madame Yevonde
vivex colour print on card mount, 1936-1937
NPG x11654

x14069

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1950s
NPG x14069

x40086

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1952
NPG x40086

x135441

Cecil Antonio ('Tony') Richardson; Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Sandra Lousada
archival pigment print, 1962
NPG x135441

x135443

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Sandra Lousada
archival pigment print, 1962
NPG x135443

x36235

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by John Vere Brown
bromide fibre print, early-mid 1970s
NPG x36235

x14325

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print on card mount, 22 September 1970
NPG x14325

x135838

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Roger Clifford Ltd
bromide print, mid 1970s
NPG x135838

D32941

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

after (Percy) Wyndham Lewis
lithograph, 1932
NPG D32941

x14528

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x14528

Category
Theatre and Live Entertainment
Groups
Actors and actresses