Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron Humboldt NPG 2515(38)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Brockedon

A pioneer of modern geography, Humboldt studied a vast range of subjects from botany and mineralogy to history and chemistry before he set out in 1799 on a five-year voyage of discovery to the New World, which he described in numerous, lavishly illustrated publications. In 1829 Humboldt, then 60 years old, left again, on a journey across Russia and central Asia at the invitation of the Tsar. He spent the last 25 years of his life writing Cosmos, a 5-volume encyclopaedia in which he developed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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