Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Forbes NPG 1609

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Leonard Charles Wyon, after a bust by John Graham Lough

The idea for this memorial prize medal, depicting the naturalist Edward Forbes, originated at a meeting of his friends following his death, according to a report in the Gentlemen's Magazine in February 1855. The medal was to be awarded to the most distinguished student in natural history in the Government School of Mines. It is inscribed on the reverse, 'NATURAE ACER INVESTIGATOR ET DILIGENS' (meaning 'a studious inquirer into the secrets of nature', a variation on a passage in Cicero's Timaeus). Forbes' friends also decided... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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