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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Edward, Prince of Wales (1537-1553) c.1540-43
Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper | 27.3 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912201
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A portrait drawing of Edward, Prince of Wales (1537-1553), later Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. A portrait of a child's head and shoulders facing to the front. He wears a cap. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: Edward Prince of Wales. The drawing is much rubbed.
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
27.3 x 22.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 12201
