Design for the Jane Seymour gold cup
Details
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Title
Design for the Jane Seymour gold cup
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Artist/maker
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 or 1498 - 1543) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
1536 - 1537 -
Material and technique
pen and brown ink with light washes of grey and pink, heightened in gold, on laid paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 37.6 x 15.5 cm [irregular hexagon] (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1863.424
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Further reading
Parker, Karl Theodore, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, I, Netherlandish, German, French and Spanish Schools (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 299
Brown, David Blayney, Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, iv: The Earlier British Drawings: British Artists and Foreigners Working in Britain Born Before c. 1775 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), 3
Thurley, Simon, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 93, illus. p. 93 fig. 122
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