Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex [graphic]

Description

Title: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex [graphic]
Creator: Hall, John, 1739-1797, printmaker
Contributor: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; half length, directed and looking to right; wearing cap and fur-lined gown; in an oval
Description: Title etched below image.
Probably engraved after a picture by Holbein.
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.
Mounted on page 102 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 8.8 x 6.7 cm, on sheet 10.9 x 9.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540,
Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540
England > London > 1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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