Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Hans Sloane, Bt NPG D8749

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Faber Jr, published by Robert Sayer, after Thomas Murray

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.