Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) English teacher, inventor and reformer of the postal system including the invention of the postage stamp
Description
This is a Digital Image not an actual print
Engraved by the English engraver Daniel John Pound (1820-1894) after the original carte de visite photograph by the English photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901).
Published in The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages 1858-62. Originally presented with The Illustrated News of the World
Steel engraving
1858-62
Original image size approx. 170 x 215 mm
Digital image size 2638 x 3352 px
22.3 cm x 28.4 cm (300 ppi)