Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk [graphic]

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Description

Title
Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk [graphic]
Creator
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, attributed name.
Mor, Anthonis, approximately 1517-1576 or 1577, artist.
John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created
[1735]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
John and Paul Knapton
Abstract

"Portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a feathered beret and collar of the Order of St Michel; in an architectural oval with draped curtain beyond and cartouche below; a weeping putto seated next to an axe and resting his hand on a crown below."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from text in image.
State with altered lettering; Anthonis Mor's name replaces that of Holbein in artist statement. For an earlier state with "Holben pinx." etched in lower right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,1211.87.
Publisher and place of publication from the volume in which the print appeared.
Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image.
Engraved after a painting that was afterwards acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 175 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 36.4 x 23 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1735
Etchings England London 1735
Material
engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1538-1572,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1538-1572
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1735
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13546159
Object ID (OID)
16733067

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