The only surviving portrait of Henry VIII from Holbein’s own hand.
Shaped: Cut XLII, HVIIIers Gonna HVIII.
Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.
Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth Portrait of Henry VIII (Oil on oak, c. 1537), the work of Hans Holbein the Younger and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.
Cite the original
Holbein the Younger, Hans.
Portrait of Henry VIII.
Oil on oak, c. 1537.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Holbein,_the_Younger,_Around_1497-1543_-_Portrait_of_Henry_VIII_of_England_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
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