Sherard Osborn Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Sherard Osborn NPG D39386
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Herbert Davis, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Stephen Pearce
Entered the Navy in 1837. The following year he took part in the blockade of Kedah, on the West coast of the Malay Peninsula and fought at Canton in 1841 and Woosung in 1842. He was prominent in advocating a search expedition for missing Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and in 1850 was appointed to the command of the Pioneer in the Arctic expedition under Captain Austin, and performed a remarkable sledge-journey to the western extremity of Prince of Wales Island. He published... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










