Catherine Howard Queen of K. Henry VIII [graphic]Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker[1739]eng"Portrait of Catherine Howard; half length, turned to the right and looking towards the viewer, her hands clasped, wearing French hood edged with pearls, and pearl necklace; in oval frame, with curtain falling to the left, partly covering Catherine's decapitated head which is seen lying next to an axe on the ground to right; a Spirit with a half-extinguished torch by his side sits beside the head."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text in image.Publisher and place of publication from the volume in which the print appeared.Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].Sheet trimmed to 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 137 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.