Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485?-1540). Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken, 1739, after Hans Holbein.

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1739
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590131i
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485?-1540). Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken, 1739, after Hans Holbein. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lord Great Chamberlain of England under Henry VIII; carried out the dissolution of the monasteries. The vignette below portrays him showing Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves to Henry VIII

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Londini [London] : Impensis J. & P. Knapton, 1739.

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1 print : engraving

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J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. ; Holbein pinx.

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Wellcome Collection 590131i

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Engraved after a painting then in the possession of Edward Southwell and now in the National Portrait Gallery

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