Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

An unknown man NPG x199100

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jabez Hogg, or by John Frederick Goddard, for Richard Beard

Richard Beard was born in Devon, the son of a grocer in Newton Abbot. He moved to London in 1833 and profitably established himself in the coal trade until 1843. Beard set up in photography as a business speculation. He purchased a licence to use the daguerreotype process in 1841, and opened the world's first photographic studio. It was set up in a glasshouse on the roof of London's Royal Polytechnic Institution to provide all-round lighting, which was necessary to the daguerreotype process. There were... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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