print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1882,0211.178
- Title
- Object: Etienne Gardiner, évêque de Winchester et grand chancelier d'Angleterre
- Description
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Portrait of a canon wrongly identified as Stephen Gardiner, after a painting formerly attributed to Holbein and now to Metsys; half-length, slightly turned to left, wearing hat, pleated tunic, holding spectacles in right hand and a small book in the other; a landscape in the background; lettered state of plate published in 'L'Art', volume XXIV, 1881
Etching
- Production date
- 1881
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 202 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This plate was later re-used in "Tableaux de premier ordre anciens et modernes composant la galerie de M. John W. Wilson", for comment on the series see also 1877,1013.1767.
After the painting in Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. For an early proof see 1922,0722.17.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: L'Art
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Acquisition notes
- Annotated in pencil at the back: 'Sold [1859? 1889?] in [illegible] sale as by Q. Matsys [sic]'.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0211.178