Walter Persons and Jeffrey Hudson Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Walter Persons and Jeffrey Hudson NPG D28516
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John Brand, after George Glover
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.










