Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

A Rising Statesman (Charles Green; Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde) NPG D41384

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean

Charles Green was the first man to ascend in a balloon filled with coal-generated hydrogen gas in 1821. He made over 500 ascents and airborne excursions between 1821 and 1852, one of which was a record journey of about five hundred miles from Vauxhall Gardens in London to Weilburg in Germany.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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