Skip to main content

Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537: P.13744-R

An image of Print
View image details

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537
Birch's Heads

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Houbraken, Jacobus

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Ambrose Firmin-Didot (1790-1876) (Lugt 119); his sale, Drouot, Paris, 16 April-12 May 1877, lot 2538, described as 'En buste. --Premier état, avant toute lettre. -- Tres-belle épreuve'; H.P Horne; sale (Sotheby's), 24 June 1926, Lot 582; bt. Charrington

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1933) by Charrington, John

Dating

18th Century
1738 - 1753

Note

Before lettering. Dating based on other plates in the series.

School or Style

Dutch

Techniques used in production

Engraving
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.13744-R
Primary reference Number: 205138
Lugt: 572
Lugt: 119
Ver Huell (Houbraken): 85
O'Donoghue: 9

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/205138 Accessed: 2025-12-06 01:54:03

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/205138 |title=Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537 |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-06 01:54:03|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-205138

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp72/P_13744_R_036_201507_cod27_mas.jpg"
        alt="Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Portrait of Jane Seymour, Queen of England, 1508/9-1537</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo