Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Henry VIII; King Henry VII NPG 4027

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hans Holbein the Younger

To commemorate the strength and triumphs of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII commissioned from Holbein a wall-painting for Whitehall Palace; this was completed in 1537. The immediate impetus for the commission may have been the birth or the expectation of the birth of Henry's son Edward, later Edward VI, in October 1537. The mural may have been in Henry's Privy Chamber and therefore have had a select, restricted audience rather than being an image of wider propaganda. This very large drawing is the preparatory drawing... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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