A portrait drawing of Sir Thomas Elyot, on pink prepared paper. He is shown bust length, facing three-quarters to the left. He wears a hat and a crucifix on a chain around his shoulders. The drawing is largely in black and coloured chalks, with additions of black ink and white heightening in his face.An eighteenth-century inscription (a copy of a mid-sixteenth-century original) at top left identifies the sitter as Th: Eliott Knight.Sir Thomas Elyot was a writer and diplomat, and was well…
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