Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Joanna Southcott NPG 1402

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Sharp

In 1792 Joanna Southcott, a domestic servant in Exeter, declared herself a visionary prophetess. Local harvest failures and food riots as well as international war and revolution provided the backdrop for her national mission to proclaim these disasters as signs that the Second Coming of Christ was imminent. Provincial preaching tours, numerous books, newspaper columns and posters won her thousands of followers across the country. In 1814, she announced herself pregnant by the Holy Spirit and managed to convince several reputable doctors of her condition.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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