Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Richard Pigott NPG 2234

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sydney Prior Hall

The Irish journalist who confessed to having forged the incriminating letter. On the first day, 21 February 1889, of Sir Charles Russell's cross-examination, Hall recorded Russell's injunction: ''Now Mr Pigott pull yourself together''. After his confession, Pigott fled to Madrid and committed suicide on being apprehended by the police in an hotel there.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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