Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alexander Monro, tertius NPG P6(16)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson

Alexander Monro followed his father and grandfather in becoming professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University. At the time professorships were habitually treated as the property of their holders, who often arranged to have them passed on to their sons. To prepare for the appointment he studied anatomy in London and Paris, returning to Edinburgh in 1800. On his father's death in 1817 he was duly appointed sole professor and he held this position until 1846. The anatomy course was the cornerstone of medical studies, and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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