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Connections: The Tudors

Publications production manager Peter Antony revels in the drama running throughout the history of the Tudors.

"It's risky to judge a medieval or early Renaissance family by modern psychotherapeutic standards, but they seem to me to have been extremely dysfunctional."

Publications production manager Peter Antony revels in the drama running throughout the history of the Tudors.


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Field Armor of King Henry VIII 
of England (reigned 1509–47), Steel, gold, textile, 
leather, Italian, Milan or Brescia
Italian, Milan or Brescia
ca. 1544
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), 
Third Earl of Cumberland, Jacob Halder  British, Steel, gold, leather, textile, British, Greenwich
Jacob Halder
1586
Waistcoat, linen, silk, metal, British
British
1615–20
King Philip II of Spain, Pompeo Leoni  Italian, Marble, Spanish
Pompeo Leoni
second half 16th century
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603), Onyx and gold, probably Italian
probably Italian
ca. 1570–1600
Groat of Henry VII (1485–1509), Silver, British
British
early 16th century
Half groat of Henry VIII (r. 1509–47), Silver, British
British
1544–47
Pair of gloves, Leather, satin worked with silk and precious metal thread, seed pearls; satin, couching, and darning stitches; metal bobbin lace; paper, British
British
ca. 1600
Testoon of Henry VIII (third coinage), Silver, British, London
British, London
1509–47
Doll Tearsheet, Falstaff, Henry and Poins (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4), William Satchwell Leney  American, born England, Stipple engraving; third state of three
Multiple artists/makers
first published 1795; reissued 1852
Mary I, Queen of England, Francis Delaram  British, Engraving
Multiple artists/makers
1600–1627
Queen Elizabeth I of England, Frans Huys  Netherlandish, Engraving
Multiple artists/makers
late 16th–early 17th century
Portrait of a Woman, British Painter  British, Oil on wood
British Painter
ca. 1600
Mary, Queen of Scots, with Her Son, James, British Painter  British, Oil on slate
British Painter
19th century
Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex, Nicholas Hilliard  British, Vellum laid on card
Nicholas Hilliard
1588
Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery, Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden
Hans Holbein the Younger
1532–35
Margaret Roper (Margaret More, 1505–1544), Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Vellum laid on playing card
Hans Holbein the Younger
1535–36
Thomas Wriothesley (1505–1550), First Earl of Southampton, Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Vellum laid on card
Hans Holbein the Younger
ca. 1535
Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509), Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Oil and gold on oak
Hans Holbein the Younger
early 1540s
Edward VI (1537–1553), When Duke of Cornwall, Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Oil and gold on oak
Hans Holbein the Younger
ca. 1545; reworked 1547 or later
The Last Supper, Bernard van Orley  Netherlandish, Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread.
Bernard van Orley
Pieter de Pannemaker
ca. 1525–28