Medium
Black and coloured chalks
Size
38.1 × 28.1 cm
Inventory
RCIN 912226
Period
England, 1526–1527
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

A study for Holbein's lost group portrait of Sir Thomas More's family, destroyed by fire in 1752.

1483 × 2000 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chalk drawing of the young John More, half-length, looking down at a paper held in both hands, in a flat cap and a striped doublet, with brown hair.