Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Florence Barbara Maria (née von Sass), Lady Baker NPG Ax27707

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Maull & Co

Born Florence Barbara Maria Finnin von Sass, possibly in Romania, her Eastern European parents were killed when she was seven. At seventeen she was about to be sold in an Ottoman slave market in Hungary when an English widower, Sam Baker, rescued her. Together they travelled to Africa in 1861, searching for the source of the River Nile. The Bakers reached Luta N'Zige, the secondary source of the Nile, which they called Lake Albert . In 1865 they made a journey to Britain to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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