Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Darwin NPG 1024

© National Portrait Gallery, London

copy by John Collier

This portrait of Charles Darwin, the great scientist and author of On the Origin of Species, is a copy by the artist of a portrait undertaken by John Collier for the Linnean Society. Collier was himself the son-in-law of another prominent late Victorian scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley. The portrait was presented to the Gallery by Darwin's eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin, who wrote to Lionel Cust in 1896: 'The picture is a replica of the one in the rooms in the Linnaean [sic] Society... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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