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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Elizabeth, Lady Rich (d.1558) c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 37.4 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912271
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A portrait drawing of Elizabeth, Lady Rich (d.1558), wife of Richard, 1st Baron Rich, daughter of William Jenks. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. A corresponding painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Inscribed by the artist: Damast (damask) and Samet (velvet). Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Rich.
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, pen and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
37.4 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Markings
watermark: Briquet 11387, hand and flower [same as 12238]
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Other number(s)
RL 12271
