Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban NPG D26071

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Henry Worthington, after Nicholas Hilliard

A lawyer, philosopher, essayist and scientist, Bacon was one of the great intellectual figures of Jacobean England. He was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1618, but was impeached for bribery three years later and confessed to 'corruption' and 'neglect', ending his political career. He spent the rest of his life in retirement, to devote himself to scientific research, which has led him to be regarded as the father of experimental science in this country. He published Essays (1597), Advancement of Learning (1605), Novum Organum (1620) and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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