Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Bowring NPG D32025

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Stephenson, after Charles Allen Duval

Economist, linguist, writer and traveller; promoted reforms to the keeping of public accounts and obtained the issue of the florin as the first step towards a decimal system of currency. Friend of John Stuart Mill and editor of the radical 'Westminster Review'; after a varied career as journalist, poet, financial and economic expert. MP, traveller and diplomat, became consul at Canton, 1847; later appointed plenipotentiary to China and governor commander-in-chief and vice-admiral of Hong Kong; undertook hostilities against the Chinese, 1856, and with ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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