Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Hans Sloane, Bt NPG D27596

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Born in Ireland, Sloane travelled to London and France to study medicine. Afterwards he went to Jamaica as a physician to the colony’s British governor. In Jamaica, he worked as a doctor on slave plantations and, with help from English planters and enslaved West Africans, he assembled a collection of plant and animal specimens and objects related to plantation life. After his return, he married Elizabeth Langley, the heiress to a large fortune from her father’s plantations in Jamaica. In 1727, Sloane became President of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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