Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Emma Gray NPG D8917

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George J. Stodart, after J. Ayling

In 1842, Gray published five volumes of her etchings in Figures of Molluscan Animals for the use of Students and later organised and arranged Hugh Cuming's vast collection of shells at The British Museum. One of her main passions and areas of expertise was algae, bequeathing her own collection to Cambridge University Museum. Her second husband, the zoologist John Edward Gray, named two species of Lizard, Calotes maria and Calotes emma in her honour. He recognised her contribution to his own work, by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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