Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Howard NPG D36010

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Edmund Scott, after Mather Brown

Prison reformer and social campaigner. Howard himself experienced imprisonment in France in 1756. It was not until 1773 when he became High Sherriff of Bedfordshire that he initiated an important campaign to transform prison conditions. His long series of visits to prisons in Britain and most European countries led him to write his influential book The State of the Prisons, first published in 1777. A highly reserved man, Howard shunned public recognition throughout his life.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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