Henry VIII (1491-1547): PD.19-1949

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hornebolt, Lucas

Entities

Miniature (painting)

Categories

Miniature (painting)

Notes

History note: Hollingworth Magniac (Colworth Collection, Bedfordshire); his sale Christie's, 4 July 1892 (183) (as by Holbein, and from the Walpole Collection at Strawberry Hill), where bought Colnaghi's; The Duke of Buccleuch

Legal notes

Bought from the Spencer George Perceval Fund.

Measurements and weight

Height: 53 mm
Width: 48 mm

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1949) by The Perceval Fund

Dating

1525 CE - 1527 CE

School or Style

Materials used in production

Components of the work

Support composed of vellum (skin) ( on card)

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour on vellum on card

Inscription or legends present

Text: HR / VIII
Location: Centre left
Method of creation: Gold

Text: A N / XXXV
Location: Centre right
Method of creation: Gold

Text: H K
Location: Upper centre and lower centre

References and bibliographic entries

Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 34
Notice of the Principal Works of Art in the Collection of Hollingworth Magniac page(s): 103
Miniatures page(s): 94
Hans Holbein the Younger page(s): 233
'The Buccleuch Miniatures' page(s): 38
Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch page(s): 5, 9
Ein Vlamische Portrait-maker in England page(s): 18
The British School of Miniature Portrait Painters page(s): 7
Aspects of Miniature Painting page(s): 63-5
'Some Tudor Portraits at the Royal Academy' page(s): 9-13
The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey page(s): 253
'Gerard and Lucas Hornebolt in England' page(s): 396-402
'Review of the 'Treasures of Cambridge' exhibition at the Goldsmith's Hall, 17 March - 18 April 1959' page(s): 102
'New Light on Four Almain Armours: 2' page(s): 241
Nicholas Hilliard page(s): 50-1
Painting of the Month
Portrait Miniatures (1969)
Tudor and Jacobean Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery (I) page(s): 160
Tudor and Jacobean Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery (II)
Jean Clouet page(s): 42
A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters
Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII page(s): 131
Tommaso Moro e l'Utopia page(s): 91
The English Miniature page(s): 3-4, 31-2
Isaac Oliver (Vol. I) page(s): 3
The English Renaissance Miniature page(s): 16, 34, 189
The Way Howe to Lymne page(s): 4, 5, 6, 9
Hilliard and Oliver page(s): 21
Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 128-30
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen page(s): 46-7

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.19-1949
Primary reference Number: 18035
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 20 January 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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