Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Dimsdale NPG 600

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Nathaniel Plimer

Thomas Dimsdale was an eminent physician who published The present methods of inoculation for the smallpox in 1767. The treatise impressed Empress Catherine II of Russia at a moment when a severe epidemic of smallpox was sweeping through Russia. She was determined that she and her son, Grand Duke Paul should receive the inoculation. Dr Dimsdale, accompanied by his son Nathaniel, visited Russia in 1768 and successfully performed the potentially dangerous treatment. The Empress and the future Paul I were liberal in their... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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