Image: Original color-printed stipple engraving by S. Freeman, on tinted paper. – One sheet from a folio - This plate: William Sharinton [Sir William Sherington].

This is a folio page from the “reissue of 1812” a “Quarto”(smaller sized folio/book) based on the original folio (large sized book) called: Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the collection of his majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII.

Condition: Very Good - Museum quality matted

Image Size: 4 1/2”w x 6 7/8”h

Bottom Right of Image in Italics Holbein

Bottom Left of Image in Italics S. Freeman

Bottom Center Printed inside image in Italics William Sharinton

Bottom Center Printed 1 ½” below image in caps IN HIS MAJESTY’S COLLECTION

Bottom Center Printed in Italics 2 7/8” below image: London Published   by J. Chamberlaine   1.^st Jan.”1812.

About the engraver Freeman: Samuel Freeman (1773-1857) was an English engraver. He died on 27 February 1857, aged 84. Freeman worked chiefly in stipple, and is principally known as an engraver of portraits.

About the subject Sharinton: Sir William Sharinton (born in around 1495, died before 6 July 1553) was an English courtier of the time of Henry VIII, master and embezzler of the Bristol Mint, Member of Parliament, conspirator, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire.

About the portrait artist Holbein: Hans Holbein the Younger (German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere) (c. 1497[2] – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic School. Holbein travelled to England in 1526 in search of work.  By 1535, he was King's Painter to Henry VIII of England. His portraits of the royal family and  nobles are a record of the court in the years when Henry was asserting his supremacy over the Church of England.