2-648-123 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey', c1532-1533 (1945). Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG (1516-1547), was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry. He was a first cousin of both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth wives of King Henry VIII. The drawing is part of the Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle. From The Drawings of Holbein at Windsor Castle by K. T. Parker. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford & London, 1945]