print
- Museum number
- P,3.326
- Title
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Object: Catherinæ Howard
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Series: Icones Principum Virorum
- Description
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Portrait of Katherine Howard, half-lengt in front of a curtain to the right and foliage winding into a windowsill to the left, turned slightly to the left, with long hair in curls, wearing a low cut dress with a bow at the waist, pearl earrings and pearl chains around her neck and right arm, the arms held against the body at the level of the waist; after van Dyck
Engraving
- Production date
- 1640-1655
- Dimensions
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Height: 242 millimetres
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression see 1871,1209.2414. For comment on Van Dyck's Iconography see R,1b.47.
The whereabouts of the copper-plate are unknown. The portrait is based on Van Dyck's painting, a double portrait with Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland, now kept in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, see S. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, 'Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings', Yale & London, 2004, cat.no.IV.194.
See also P,3.325 for an impression of the print by Arnold de Jode (New Hollstein 137).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- P,3.326
