Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Austen Henry Layard NPG D37225

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Brown, published by Richard Bentley, after Henry Wyndham Phillips

Layard was an archaeologist, politician, diplomat, art collector and Trustee of the National Gallery. He was also a great friend of the artist, George Frederic Watts. Having carried out two excavations in 1845-6 and 1849-50, he wrote Nineveh and its Remains (1849) and Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853), both published by John Murray. Taking up a parliamentary career in 1852, Layard won the seat of Aylesbury as a Liberal.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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