Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Ray with 'Britannia crowning Ray as the Prince of English Botanists' NPG D39221

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Holl Sr, published by Robert John Thornton, after Thomas Uwins, and after Unknown artist

Regarded as the father of natural history in this country, Ray's most important work was in the classification of plants. His Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicatum, 1692, was the first systematic description of English flora, and remained unsurpassed until the work of Linnaeus. Ray also wrote a history and classification of insects.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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