2-648-130 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Thomas, Lord Vaux', c1533 (1945). Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden KB (1509-1556), English poet, was educated at Cambridge University. His mother was the maternal aunt of queen consort Catherine Parr, while his wife, Elizabeth Cheney, was a first cousin of the sixth and final wife 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]