Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Adam Sree Goona Munhi Rathana Vadheygay NPG D46404

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Hicks, published by Henry Fisher, after Alexander Mosses

Sri Lankan Buddhist priest who developed an interest in Christianity after reading the New Testament, printed for the first time in Cingalese (Sinhalese) by Wesleyan missionaries in Colombo. He travelled to England with his cousin Dharma Rama (both high priests of the temple of Doodandhuve, near Galle) in 1818 with the chief judge of Ceylon, Hon. Sir Alexander Johnston. After a period of Christian instruction, he and his cousin were baptised in 1820 by Adam Clarke.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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