Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

David Dale NPG 5810

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Henning

David Dale was a Scottish merchant and businessman, famous for establishing the influential weaving community of New Lanark. The son of a grocer, he served an apprenticeship with a weaver in Paisley, and in 1763 set up as a linen yarn dealer in Glasgow. In 1784 Dale joined with the English cotton-spinning inventor Sir Richard Arkwright to build the New Lanark Mills. By this time a wealthy industrialist, Dale was also a philanthropist by inclination with progressive ideas for the education and welfare of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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