Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Green NPG 2557

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hilaire Ledru

Charles Green was the first man to ascend in a balloon filled with coal-generated hydrogen gas in 1821. He made over 500 ascents and airborne excursions between 1821 and 1852, one of which was a record journey of about five hundred miles from Vauxhall Gardens in London to Weilburg in Germany.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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