Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Albert Richard Smith NPG x15449

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Camille Silvy

Initially a surgeon, in the 1840s Smith became a popular journalist and humorist. He was an early contributor to Punch and a regular contributor to Richard Bentley's Miscellany, in whose pages his first and most successful book, The Adventures of Mr Ledbury, appeared in 1842. Smith became best known, however, for his entertaining lectures about his travels in the 1850s. In 1851 he climbed Mont Blanc. The following year Mr. Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc opened at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, on a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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