Medium
Black and coloured chalks
Size
35.1 × 27.3 cm
Inventory
RCIN 912224
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.

1176 × 1500 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chalk drawing of the elderly Sir John More, half-length and turned slightly right, in a dark cap and a gown with a broad brown fur collar, his face lightly coloured.