Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester NPG 3006

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Unusually for a Vanity Fair caricature, Lankester's colourful specimens of exotic fauna are prominent in the composition. The accompanying text gave a good-humoured account of the scientist: …the Bohemian of the scientific world. He is a veritable swashbuckler amongst professors, having not a pinch of dry-as-dust pedantry about him.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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