Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Waterton NPG 1621

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Percy Fitzgerald

Waterton was a pioneering naturalist and traveller who invented a new method of taxidermy. He first travelled to South America in 1805 to manage his uncle’s sugar plantations in British Guiana where 300 enslaved Africans were put to work. He relinquished this post in 1812 and between 1816 and 1824 he explored the tropical forests of South America, travelled around North America and visited the West Indies. In 1825 he published the successful Wanderings in South America, which recorded natural history, explained his technique for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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