[Jane Seymour] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Jane Seymour] [graphic].
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Jane Seymour; bust-length, turned to right; wearing gable head-dress with veil hanging over her left shoulder, a pearl necklace, and a gown with a square neckline
Description: Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Probably engraved after the drawing by Vertue, copied from an original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 101 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 8.3 x 7 cm, on sheet 10.5 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1797
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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