[Hans Holbein] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Hans Holbein] [graphic].
Contributor: Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Hans Holbein; head and shoulders to right, looking towards the viewer; wearing a dark cap and doublet with standing collar
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.
Apparently engraved after Holbein's self-portrait, perhaps after the copy by Eccardt 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 8.5 x 7 cm, on sheet 10.4 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Self-portraits
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543,
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543
England > London > 1797
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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