Volume 30, Number 12 · July 21, 1983
Holbein's Faces
By Maurice Grosser
"Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII" Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, April 21-July 30, 1983
an exhibition of drawings from the Collection of H.M. Queen
Seventy portrait drawings by Holbein the Younger from the royal collection at Windsor Castle, supplemented by material from other sources—paintings, documents, and book illustrations—are on view at the Morgan Library until the end of July. The portrait drawings, which are the meat of the show, were made during Holbein's two visits to England, first when he was the guest of Sir Thomas More—he had come with a letter from Erasmus—and during a later stay of eleven years which was ended by his death from the plague in 1543.
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