Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry NPG D35698

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Cousins, published by Thomas Agnew, after James Lonsdale

Henry began to study medicine at Edinburgh University in 1795, taking his doctor's degree in 1807, but ill health interrupted his practice as a physician, and he devoted his time mainly to chemical research, especially with regard to gases. He played an important part in the intellectual life of Manchester, his home town, and particularly in the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, which his father had helped to found. His Elements of Experimental Chemistry (1799) enjoyed considerable vogue in its day, running to eleven editions.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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