Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Austen Henry Layard ('Statesmen, No. 30.') NPG D43394

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

Layard was an archaeologist, politician, diplomat, art collector and Trustee of the National Gallery. He was also a great friend of the artist, George Frederic Watts. Having carried out two excavations in 1845-6 and 1849-50, he wrote Nineveh and its Remains (1849) and Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853), both published by John Murray. Taking up a parliamentary career in 1852, Layard won the seat of Aylesbury as a Liberal.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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