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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Lady Ratcliffe c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 30.1 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912236
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A portrait drawing of Lady Ratcliffe. A half length portrait facing to the front. She wears a chain and pendant. Inscribed by the artist: damast black, and schwarz felbat (black velvet). Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Ratclif. Holbein’s drawings are an important source of information for the dress at the court during of Henry VIII. This lady wears a distinctive headdress with a hood lifted up on one side. The artist also made separate studies of jewellery and notes about the type and colour of the cloth worn by the sitter. As a number of women were known as Lady Ratcliffe, we do not know her precise identity. It is possible that she is the wife of Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe, third son of the Earl of Sussex.
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, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, brown chalk, yellow chalk, pen and ink, brush and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
30.1 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12236
