Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Newman NPG Ax9897

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau, after Heath & Beau

Leading figure in the Oxford Movement with John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey. He converted to Catholicism, and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847. Newman's autobiography Apologia pro vita sua (1864) is a classic example of the spiritual autobiography, an account of personal faith and spiritual development. Written in defence of his controversial conversion to Catholicism, the Apologia appeared in seven weekly pamphlets. Newman, who became a Cardinal in 1879, hoped his autobiography would convince the protestant public that his conversion... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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