[Suit of armour] [art original]Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist[ca. 1842]engDepiction of the suit of armor, shown in an arched niche with a pike and shield, that Horace Walpole believed to be of Francis I, King of France. It sold in lot 77 on the nineteenth day of the 1842 Strawberry Hill SaleTitle devised by curator.Signed in lower left corner with the artist Thomas H. Shepherd's initials.Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.Bound in as page 192a in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.