Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man, formerly known as Sir Paul Rycaut NPG 2691

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

The leading authority of his day on the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Constantinople in 1660 as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador. His first major work, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1666), an analysis of Ottoman government and society, was a bestseller in several languages and still published over a hundred years later. Rycaut was British Consul at Smyrna, the most important centre of English trade in the eastern Mediterranean, from 1667 until 1678. In 1669, he published an anonymous account of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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