Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Edward Parry NPG D15679

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds, published by and after William Haines

Entered the Navy at the age of thirteen, and served in the North Sea and the Baltic. In 1818, he commanded a brig on an Arctic expedition and the following year he was appointed to command another expedition to search for a North-West Passage to the Pacific. The trip was successful and returned with much scientific material. Parry's care for his men, his solution of many of the problems of wintering in the ice, and his meticulous scientific work set a pattern of Arctic exploration... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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