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Image: Chimney-piece design, by Hans Holbein the Younger

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Description: Design for a Chimney-piece. Pen and black ink with grey, blue, and red wash on paper, 53.9 × 47 cm, British Museum, London. Throughout his career, Holbein produced many designs for furniture, plate, jewellery, clocks, and other luxury goods; but this design is the only evidence that he made architectural designs in England, and the coat of arms indicates that he made it for Henry VIII. His chimney-piece design incorporates battle scenes and roundels of blind Justice on the right and Charity on the left and Esther before Ahasuerus below. It has been suggested that the chimney-piece was for the fireplace in Whitehall Palace.
Title: Chimney-piece design, by Hans Holbein the Younger
Credit: Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454, pp. 90–91.
Author: Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/1498–1543)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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