Portrait of a lady thought to represent Anne Boleyn; bust-length, wearing rectangular-fronted headdress and pearl necklace with oval pendant
Description:
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand; the name "Jane Seymour" is also written lightly at bottom of sheet., 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., Apparently engraved after the picture by Holbein, perhaps after the copy by Eccardt that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., and 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536,