Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frontispiece to 'The History of the Royal-Society of London' by Thomas Sprat NPG D2945

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Wenceslaus Hollar, after John Evelyn

The Society 'history' was written by the future Bishop of Rochester, Thomas Sprat under the guidance of John Wilkins. The book was a manifesto of the Society's aims and methods. It was primarily aimed at the king in the (unrealised) hope that he would fund their future activities. The frontispiece flatters Charles II by presenting him as a classical bust being wreathed by an allegorical figure of Fame. The Society President, Viscount Brouncker, points to the Latin inscription 'Charles II founder and Patron... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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