Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Kenelm Digby NPG 486

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Anthony van Dyck

A founding fellow of the Royal Society, Digby was a Royalist who served as Chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria. Due to his social position he was invited to write the Society's first authorised publication, A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants (1661). However, he began to fall out of step with the approach to scientific enquiry that the Society hoped to promote. His interests lay in alchemy, the attempt to turn base metals into gold, and a 'sympathetic powder', which he claimed could heal a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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