Astronomical_clock,_design_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
Summary
Description Astronomical clock, design by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg |
English:
Design for Anthony Denny's Clocksalt.
Pen and black ink on paper with grey wash and red wash on the compass, 41 × 21.3 cm, British Museum, London.
Holbein designed this clocksalt—a combination of a clock, hourglass, sundial, and compass—for Anthony Denny , whose portrait he had drawn two years earlier. Denny was a rising figure in the royal court and went on to control the dry stamp of Henry VIII's signature at the end of the reign and play a key role in the regency council during the reign of Edward VI. Denny seems to have been a personal friend of Holbein: he lived in the same neighbourhood and lent him money, which Holbein paid back in the terms of his will. Holbein died in 1543, the same year he designed this clocksalt. A note on the drawing shows that Denny presented a clock made from this design to King Henry, who owned a number of clocks and clocksalts, as a New year's gift. It would have been an expensive item, made of precious metals. Holbein had often designed for goldsmiths since his training in Augsburg, a centre of the goldsmiths' trade. Two of the notes on the sketch are in the hand of Holbein's friend the royal astronomer Nicholas Kratzer , who probably assisted in the technical design of the piece. (Foister, p. 77.) |
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Source | Susan Foister, Holbein in England , London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454 , p. 76. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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