Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Herschel ('Gulielmus Herschel LL.D : RSS') NPG D14425

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Ryder, published by S. Watts, after Lemuel Francis Abbott

In 1781 the amateur astronomer Herschel identified Uranus, the first planet to be discovered since Antiquity. He was appointed court astronomer to George III the following year, 1782. Working with his sister Caroline (1750-1848), whom he had trained, he made four complete surveys of the night sky and was the first person correctly to describe the Milky Way. Using his great forty-foot telescope constructed over four years, he found two new satellites of Saturn in 1789. Herschel's discoveries astonished the public and inspired Romantic... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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