Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Benjamin Stillingfleet NPG D42145

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Valentine Green, after Johan Joseph Zoffany

Botanist and author. In 1759 he published the first fundamental treatise in England advocating the principles of Linnaeus in classifying plants; this treatise included his own Observations on Grasses. Stillingfleet is also noteworthy for his cultural activities as a member of Elizabeth Montagu's blue-stocking circle and as a librettist for oratorios by Handel's successor, John Christopher Smith.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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