Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Penny NPG D40145

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Scott, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Stephen Pearce

Penny was sent to sea at a young age by his father who was a whale skipper. He was an early advocate of marine steam power; commanding the first steam whaler, into the Arctic regions. He played a major part in the search for Sir John Franklin and the crew of Erebus and Terror, who were lost in the Arctic during an attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. Penny sailed in May 1850 and found on Beechey Island traces of Franklin's winter quarters of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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