Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry) NPG 1651c

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Matilda Heming (née Lowry)

Born in London to the engraver Wilson Lowry and mineralogist lecturer, Rebekah Delvalle, Varley received a home education in science, which was denied to most women of her generation. She socialised in her parent's circle of artists and leading scientists, includingCharles Konig. In her Conversations on Mineralogy, published in 1822, she presented a conversation between two female students and their teacher. She and her father engraved plates for the book and she aimed to make the book accessible to a wide audience. It... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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