Recto: Portrait of an unknown Woman
Verso: Study of a Man reading

Details

• Title

  Recto: Portrait of an unknown Woman
  Verso: Study of a Man reading

• Artist/maker

  Hans Holbein, the Elder (c. 1460 - 1524)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  1490 - 1515

• Material and technique

  recto: silverpoint on light grey prepared laid paper, touched with red chalk, and partly reinforced with pen
  verso: silverpoint on a prepared ground, slightly darker than that on the recto

• Object type

  visual representation › drawing

• Dimensions

  sheet 8.1 x 9 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Purchased with the assistance of Blakiston Fund, the Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1972.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1972.122

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