Unknown man engraved as Jeffrey Hudson Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown man engraved as Jeffrey Hudson NPG D28510

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Stow, after Daniel Mytens, published by George Perfect Harding

Jeffrey Hudson was a dwarf who belonged to the court of Queen Henrietta Maria of England in the years before King Charles I was deposed. He was famous as the 'Queen's dwarf', and 'Lord Minimus', and was considered one of the wonders of the age because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness. Hudson fought with the royalists in the civil wars and fled with the queen to France in 1644. When he killed a man in a duel in an apparent attempt to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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