Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Falcon Scott NPG 2079

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (Veresmith)

This is the only portrait of Scott to have been painted from the life. He is presented on board the Discovery following the triumphal return of his first Antarctic expedition in 1904. He wears naval uniform on which is prominently displayed the Cross of Commander of the Victorian Order awarded him by King Edward VII. He also wears the Polar Medal, which was instituted in 1904 to honour the achievement of Scott's expedition. The picture was loaned to the Gallery in 1924 by Scott's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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