Sir Thos. More [art original].[1741]engHalf-length, oval portrait of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor, classical scholar, philospher, later canonized, looking slightly right and wearing the Collar of Esses, with the Tudor rose badge of Henry VIII; within a decorative border with an elaborately decorated flag, spectre and axe below. The two drawings were created in preparation for the engraved portrait print engraved by Jacobus Houbraken and published by John & Paul Knapton in 1741Title from inscription on verso of drawing.Portrait is unsigned, but the mount is decorated with a border in ink and wash and signed: H. Gravelot inv. et delin.Counter watermark in center of sheet used as the mount: IV.After Hans Holbein the Younger