![[Thomas Wolsey.] Thomas Wolfeius.](jpegs/65132.jpg)
[Thomas Wolsey.] Thomas Wolfeius. Card: & Archiep. Eborac: &c.
H.Holbein Pinxit. J.Faber Fecit.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Cut to platemark.
Portrait of Thomas Wolsey (1473 - 1530), English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner. Wolsey founded Cardinal College, Oxford in 1525, although it was later suppressed. In 1532, it was refounded as King Henry VIII's College and, later, as Christ Church.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65132] £90.00
[n.d., c.1712.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Cut to platemark.
Portrait of Thomas Wolsey (1473 - 1530), English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner. Wolsey founded Cardinal College, Oxford in 1525, although it was later suppressed. In 1532, it was refounded as King Henry VIII's College and, later, as Christ Church.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65132] £90.00