Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jonas Hanway NPG D14795

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Bretherton, after Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton

Apprenticed to a merchant in Lisbon, where he spent twelve years. He returned to London in 1741; in 1743 he joined the Russia Company and spent the next seven years in Russia and Persia. Hanway came to prominence in 1753 on the publication of the narrative of his travels. He thereafter devoted himself to philanthropy. In 1756 he founded The Marine Society, which recruited men for the Navy. He became a governor of the Foundling Hospital in 1758 and its vice president in 1772. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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