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Joan, Lady Meutas (d.1577) c.1536-43
Black and coloured chalks on pale pink prepared paper | 28.1 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912222
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A portrait drawing of Joan, Lady Meutas (d.1577), wife of Sir Peter Meutas. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. She wears a headdress, necklace, and pendant. Also shown is the outline of a medallion and a study of hands with rings on the fingers. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Meutas.
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
28.1 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 12222