Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Silk Buckingham NPG D32304

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Thomas Doo, after Unknown artist

Author and traveller; after a seafaring career he established a newspaper at Calcutta which was eventually suppressed for its criticism of the government, but Buckingham was later granted compensation by the East India Company; he established several other newspapers and journals and from 1832-7 was an MP, but much of his life was spent travelling and lecturing and writing about his journeys.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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