2-702-380 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Katharina Howard', (1933). Portrait of Catherine Howard (c1520-1542), fifth wife and Queen of Henry VIII of England. She is sometimes known by Henry's reference to her as the rose without a thorn. Despite this, he had her beheaded because of her alleged adultery. After a miniature by Hans Holbein. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]