William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton: 164

Current Location: In storage

Titles

William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton

Maker(s)

Painter: Holbein, Hans, the younger (After)

Entities

Painting

Notes

History note: Presumably always at Cowdray House, Sussex, until after 1793, when it passed at a date unknown into the possession of Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Measurements and weight

Height: 187.1 cm
Width: 100.0 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Production date: not before AD 1539

School or Style

British

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of panel (wood)

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel

Inscription or legends present

Location: Upper left
Type: Achievement of arms

Text: WILLIAM . FFITZ . WILLIAM / ERLE . OF . SOVTHE . / HAMPTON / LORDT . PREVISEALE / AND. CHAVNCELIER / OF . THE . DOVCHE / OF . LANCASTER / 1542
Location: Upper right

References and bibliographic entries

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 96, 97
The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 85
The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929) page(s): 103
Cowdray and Easebourne Priory
The Drawings of Hans Holbein... at Windsor Castle page(s): 54
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School page(s): 115-117

Identification numbers

Accession number: 164
Primary reference Number: 3408
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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