FDA-E.2283-2015
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.2283-2015
Object type
Identification
Title
Lady Hoby (?)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Parker 51
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 276mm
width (actual size): 197mm
width (actual size): 197mm
Inscription
Inscribed in pencil on reverse '51N Lady Hoby / Identified as (Looke) / Wife of Sir Thomas Hoby / Diplomat and Man of Letters / But her birth as 1528 seems / to rule this out / Possibly - / Elizabeth, daughter of / Sir William Stonor / Wife of Sir Philip Hoby (P50) / (1505-1558) / Thomas & Philip were half / brothers'
Production
Person
Holbein, Hans, 1497 - 1543 (Source artist)
Date
c. 20th century
History and association
Previous ownership
Balfour, Nicholas Robert: Nicholas Balfour Collection of Holbein collotypes, given to Eton by his son James Balfour, 2012
