Sir Thomas More (1478-1525)
Note that the work cited forms only a possible match with the seventeenth-century record.
Recorded twice in the Van der Doort inventory, in the Cabinet Room (WS 85 no.48) and later in conservation (WS 191, no 4).
Forcibly given by Fanshwe's widow through Lord Arundel; miniature copy of Holbein's portrait of Thomas More in the Frick, New York.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 191, № 4
Hans Holbein the Younger
In the Cabinet Room, Thomas More, little head which was quite decayed spent[?] a “gratadel spil” to recover the same therefore is well worth 2 of [-]
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Location:
Room description extended:
All the pictures that are mended of late that were extremely spoiled and peeled off from the panel and were eaten and rotten so that of some were left just the panel was most all to be taken away as your majesty knows
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 193
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51