Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Dilettanti Society' NPG D35199

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Vincent Brooks, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

In 1759, Phipps went to sea with his uncle, Captain the Hon. Augustus Hervey and by 1765 had been made captain of the Terpsichore. He sailed to Newfoundland and Labrador with botanist Joseph Banks. In 1773, Phipps embarked on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two ships, the Racehorse and the Carcass. One of the crew aboard Carcass was the young Nelson. During the voyage Phipps was the first European to describe the Polar Bear and the Ivory Gull, included... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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