Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Dalton NPG 316a(30)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Chantrey was commissioned to make a statue of Dalton for the Royal Institution in Manchester by a 'committee of Scientific Gentlemen', for which he received £2100. The statue has since been relocated to Manchester Town Hall. Dalton was a great admirer of William Wollaston, inventor of the camera lucida, and during sittings for these drawings, Dalton was able to view Chantrey's collection of 'busts and statues without end'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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