Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary English (née Ballard, later Greenup) NPG 6964

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Armfield Hobday

The adventurer and businesswoman Mary English first travelled to South America in 1819, when her husband raised a British legion of mercenaries to fight under Simón Bolívar. Mary tended sick soldiers, reviewed the troops and became friends with Bolívar. After her husband's death in September 1819 she stayed in South America, and her letters to England were reported in the London Weekly Dispatch and the Morning Chronicle. She visited England in 1822, but soon returned to Colombia as the commercial representative of the bankers... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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