Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Group associated with the Moravian Church NPG 1356

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Johann Valentin Haidt

This unusual scene features members of the Moravian Brethren, a reformed group of Protestants from East Bohemia who settled in Saxony in the early eighteenth century. In 1735 ten Moravian missionaries, accompanied by the Wesley brothers, went to Georgia in America to found a settlement. Soon after their charismatic leader, the missionary and mystic Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf visited London with the intention of securing protection for Moravians living and working as missionaries in Georgia and the British colonies. In 1749 an Act of Parliament... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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