Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir George Back NPG D33854

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edward Francis Finden, published by John Samuel Murray, after Richard Woodman

Back was a naval officer who helped to trace the Arctic coastline of North America. He twice accompanied the British explorer John Franklin to Canada's Northwest Territories (1819-22 and 1825-7) and later conducted two expeditions of his own to the same region. The first of these expeditions, in 1833, was to search for another British explorer, John Ross, who had disappeared on an Arctic voyage in 1829. The venture resulted in the exploration of the Great Fish River (now the Back River). In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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