Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Bakewell NPG 5949

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Boultbee

Bakewell is shown here with his animals, in a portrait by a local Leicestershire artist, as a living advertisement for his own methods. In his obituary the Gentleman's Magazine observed that though 'rather inclined to corpulence … his countenance bespoke intelligence, activity and a high degree of benevolence.'

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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