Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Newton NPG D5353

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Collyer the Younger, after John Russell

After the death of his mother aged six, Newton accompanied his father on punishing sea voyages. He later went to work for traders in enslaved people at sea and in West Africa, itself. In 1750, at the age of 25, Newton became captain of his own slave ship, transporting human cargo between the West African coast and British colonies in the Caribbean. He gave up this work after a number of religious epiphanies led him to convert to Evangelical Christianity. He became an active abolitionist,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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