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Printing plate
copper plate Familia Regia (Henry VII and Elizabeth of York with Henry VIII and Jane Seymour)

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.133

Artist/Designer/Maker

Vertue, George - Engraver
van Leemput, Remee - after
Holbein, Hans the younger - after
Vertue, George - Publisher

Production date

1743

Material

copper

Technique

Engraving
Etching

Dimensions

height: 486mm
width: 585mm

Location

Burlington House -

Content description

Printing plate with the portraits of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York with Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; after a copy of a painting by Hans Holbein (lost)

Inscriptions

Inscription content

FAMILIA REGIA
ab Holbein picta.

Inscription content

Celsissimo Principi CAROLO SEYMOUR ; Somersetiae DUCI Hertfordiae Marchioni et Comiti, [...] D.D.D. Georgius Vertue.

Inscription content

Prototypum uste magnitudinis ipso opere tectorio fecit Holbenis iubente Henrico VIIIo. Ectypum a Remigio van Leemput breviori tabella describi volvit Carolus II. M.B.F.E.H.R. Ao. Dni. M.DCLXVII. / Geo. Vertue del & Sculp

Inscription content

PL.I

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
    Printing plate with the portraits of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York with Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; after a copy of a painting by Hans Holbein (lost)
    Charles II had a copy made of the original at Whitehall, by Remee van Leemput, a student of Anthony van Dyck, after the Great Fire. The original was destroyed in the fire at Whitehall in 1697. This copy was at Kensington Palace and is now at Hampton Court. Vertue's 1736 watercolour of it is in the Royal Library.
    In his notes, Vertue also mentions the life-size cartoon made by Holbein for the original of Henry VIII and Henry VII, now at the National Portrait Gallery, then belonging to the Duke of Devonshire. He adds that he has drawn and engraved it with the permission of the Duke of Grafton.