[Sir Antony Denny] [graphic].

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Title: [Sir Antony Denny] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sir Anthony Denny
Contributor: Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Sir Anthony Denny; bust-length, turned slightly left; wearing a cap and a chain
Description: Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Engraved after a portrait by Hans Holbein. The original picture, set in a roundel, was formerly part of the Arundel collection; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.1669.
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 105 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 x 7 cm, on sheet 10.2 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): Denny, Anthony, Sir, 1501-1559,
Subjects: Denny, Anthony, Sir, 1501-1559
England > London > 1797
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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