drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5308.104
- Description
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Circular pendant set with sapphires and pearls, one of nine designs for pendant jewels, from the 'Jewellery Book'; central stones set in a cruciform pattern with foliate motifs between, pendant pearl below
Pen and black ink, with black, grey and light brown wash, touched with white bodycolour; silhouetted
- Production date
- 1532-1543 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres
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Width: 53 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also SL,5308.1-179
Rowlands 1993
LITERATURE: Waagen, Treasures, i, p. 204; Reid, pl. 14; His, pl. xlii, 3; LB, ii, p. 334, no. 26c; Ganz, p. 63, no. 312, repr.; White, p. 565, no. 106
Please see SL,5308.107 for curatorial comment
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1934 BM, Exhibition of English Art, no.387c
2003 Jan-Mar, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 'Henry Vlll revealed'
2006/7 Sep-Jan, London, Tate Britain, 'Holbein in England'
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Dept. of Manuscripts to Prints + Drawings on 20 July 1860. For a history of the contents of Sloane 5308, see SL,5308.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5308.104
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Add.5308.a (Dept. of Manuscripts Mss no.)