Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Holman NPG D37565

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Richardson Jackson, published by Henry Squire & Co, after John Prescott Knight

Holman's promising career in the Navy was curtailed at the age of twenty-four due to ill health that would affect his joints and eyesight. Invalided out of the Navy, he became completely blind soon afterwards. Determined to remain active and independent, he went on to make a number of voyages that would have been ambitious, even for a sighted traveller, at the time. He embarked on a Grand Tour, visiting many European countries, then decided to circuit the world from West to East. However this... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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