1-273-488 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Henry Cole, KCB, British designer, civil servant and writer, 1877. Cole (1808-1882) assisted Rowland Hill in designing the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, and in 1843 published the first Christmas card. He assisted Prince Albert with the planning of the 1851 Great Exhibition and was the founding Director of the South Kensington Museum, renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899.. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876-1883).