2-699-185 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'King Charles' Porter and Dwarf', (c1872). Engraving of a stone bas-relief over the entrance to Bull's Head Court in London, showing courtiers of King Charles I. 'William Evans, an enormous Welsh porter, at Whitehall [Palace]...and Sir Geoffrey, or Jeffrey Hudson, the vain but gallant dwarf'. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]