Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker NPG Ax18346

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Joseph Whitlock

Cartes-de-visite became popular after being patented by French photographer André Disdéri in 1854. It soon became very fashionable to collect these small photographic portraits, especially those of famous people.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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