Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants NPG 2765

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger

This group portrait was probably commissioned by Thomas More II, grandson of Sir Thomas More, and is a genealogical memorial of the staunchly Roman-Catholic More family over five generations, and a span of more than sixty years. Seven of the figures (nos. 1-7) derive from Holbein's group portrait Sir Thomas More with his Family and Household (1527-8), which was destroyed in the eighteenth century. Its appearance is recorded in a copy by Lockey at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, and in Holbein's preliminary drawing in the Kuntsmuseum,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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