Roger Casement Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Roger Casement NPG 3867a
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Rothenstein
Probably drawn when Casement took two of the indigenous inhabitants of the Putumayo to Rothenstein to have their portrait painted. He had brought them to London with the intention of highlighting their plight. It was on this visit to London that Casement accepted a knighthood, offered in recognition of his work in exposing the atrocities carried out by the the rubber companies of the Putamayo in the Upper Amazon Basin.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










