print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1902,1011.5782
- Title
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Object: Sir Thomas More
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Series: Portraits of characters illustrious in British History from the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth to the end of the reign of James the Second
- Description
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Pl. 66; portrait, half-length; standing and looking to right; wearing a dark cap covering his ears, dark robe over coat with fur-trimmed short sleeves, chain, and ring on the forefinger of his left hand; his right arm resting on a pedestal, holding a piece of paper with both hands; curtain behind; border of mezzotint ground around image, broader below than along other sides; after Holbein. 1811; this state published in 1815
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See comment to 1902,1011.904 for information about the series.
Number of plate taken from the 1815 second edition, where this state was published, as in Whitman.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,1011.5782