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Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540), After 1537. Watercolor on vellum.
Watercolor on vellum · Diam.: 4.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540)
- Artist
- Attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543)
- Date
- After 1537
- Medium
- Watercolor on vellum
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Framed: Diam.: 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Colonel Alexander F. and Jeannie C. Stevenson Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1497–1543
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.