Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Patrick Miller NPG 2009

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Sir George Chalmers

Banker and inventor, Miller made a fortune through the rapid economic expansion of Glasgow during the second half of the eighteenth century. He moved from trade to banking and attained the office of deputy governor of the Bank of Scotland, 1790. An early admirer and patron of the poet Robert Burns, in later life he devoted himself to agriculture, ordnance and ship design. In 1788, he worked alongside the engineer William Symington to design the world's first steam-propelled boat, an important milestone of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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