Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil John Rhodes NPG D39712

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Luke Fildes

At the age of seventeen, Rhodes joined his elder brother in South Africa to grow cotton in Natal before joining the rush to the recently discovered diamond fields in Kimberley. This is where he made his fortune, buying up smaller holders of diamond mines and his company, De Beers, became the world’s largest and most profitable diamond firm. As Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) his government restricted the rights of black Africans by changing the laws on voting and land ownership. A precursor to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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