Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex NPG D9736

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Cromwell rose to power as Cardinal Wolsey's right-hand man, later becoming principal secretary and chief minister to Henry VIII. He was a brilliant administrator and evangelical reformer, ruthlessly pursuing the dissolution of the monasteries. He was one of the architects of the king's break from the Roman Catholic Church, suggesting in 1520 that Henry become 'supreme head' of the Church of England in order to allow divorce proceedings against his first wife Katherine of Aragon. He later negotiated Henry's fourth marriage to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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