Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Galt NPG D34534

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Daniel Maclise

A prolific Scottish novelist admired for his depiction of country life. From 1824 he worked for the Canada Company, established to aid the colonisation of Upper Canada. He opened up a road between Lakes Huron and Erie through the forest country and founded the city of Guelph in Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1827. Galt was dismissed in 1829 for his lack of accounting skills and failure to carry out the company's policies. He returned to Britain in 1829, and devoted himself entirely to literature.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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