Post by John Green on Jun 9, 2023 21:28:59 GMT
"A prayer book belonging to Thomas Cromwell, believed to the only object from any 16th-century portrait to survive to this day, has gone on display.
The 1527 Book of Hours can, historians say, be seen in Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous portrait of Thomas Cromwell, which was painted in 1532-33 and is in the Frick Collection, New York...
It has gone on display at Hever Castle, where in 2021 assistant curator Kate McCaffrey made the link that Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn also had copies of the same prayer book.
McCaffrey then discovered a third copy of the 1527 Book of Hours, which was donated to the University of Cambridge in 1660. When Hever Castle’s team viewed the book, curator Alison Palmer believed it to be the book featured in Holbein’s painting as she recognised its bejewelled, silver gilt binding." www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/09/hever-castle-to-display-16th-century-prayer-book-believed-to-be-thomas-cromwells-from-holbein-portrait
The 1527 Book of Hours can, historians say, be seen in Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous portrait of Thomas Cromwell, which was painted in 1532-33 and is in the Frick Collection, New York...
It has gone on display at Hever Castle, where in 2021 assistant curator Kate McCaffrey made the link that Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn also had copies of the same prayer book.
McCaffrey then discovered a third copy of the 1527 Book of Hours, which was donated to the University of Cambridge in 1660. When Hever Castle’s team viewed the book, curator Alison Palmer believed it to be the book featured in Holbein’s painting as she recognised its bejewelled, silver gilt binding." www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/09/hever-castle-to-display-16th-century-prayer-book-believed-to-be-thomas-cromwells-from-holbein-portrait