Medium
Pen and brush with bistre and grey wash, heightened with white, gold and oxidised silver, with red and green watercolour over black chalk, on vellum
Size
22.9 × 18.2 cm
Inventory
RCIN 912188
Period
London, 1532–1543
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

A finished presentation drawing rather than a portrait study; Solomon is generally thought to be modelled on Henry VIII.

2544 × 3330 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Drawing on vellum of King Solomon enthroned under a canopy in a pillared hall hung with blue starred cloth, the Queen of Sheba and her train bringing gifts, in brown and grey wash with gold.