Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Herschel NPG 98

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lemuel Francis Abbott

Herschel sat for this portrait on the encouragement of his friend, the naturalist, Sir William Watson: 'When you are in town on full moon nights you may perhaps spare an hour early in the morning, & may sit three or four times running - & the thing may in this way be done without much inconvenience or loss of time'. According to his sister Caroline, Abbott's portrait was a good likeness of the man who claimed 'I have looked further into space than any human... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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