Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Knox D'Arcy NPG 6251(14)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harry Furniss

As a youth, D'Arcy emigrated with his father to Queensland, Australia, where he made a fortune in the Mount Morgan goldfield. He returned to London and, with British government assistance, secured in 1901 a sixty-year oil-mining concession in Iran. The area, more than 500,000 square miles. The first strike of any value was made in 1908 in South Western Iran and led to the formation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909. D'Arcy retired from active business immediately thereafter. As the first Westerner to discover... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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