Erasmus Darwin Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Erasmus Darwin NPG D34688

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Holl Sr, after J. Rawlinson, and by Thomas Milton, after Richard Corbould, published by Robert John Thornton

A physician and member of the Lunar Society, Darwin wrote The Botanic Garden (1791), a best-selling popular scientific work in rhyming couplets. Sociable, eccentric and inventive, his original ideas on evolution, propounded in his poem, 'Zoonomia', were superseded by those of his grandson, Charles Darwin.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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