Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540)
Attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543)LinkedCulture matchlcp-ae7104a32ef1
- Date
- After 1537
- Medium
- Watercolor on vellum
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 12422
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- Credit line
- Colonel Alexander F. and Jeannie C. Stevenson Memorial Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300427607
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