Lot 1578

Description

England, (1798), a pair of hand-coloured engravings by Francesco Bartolozzi, after Hans Holbein the Younger, published by John Chamberlaine, March 26 1798, the first of Henry, Eldest Son of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the second of Charles, 2nd Son of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (27 cm x 23 cm). (2)

Ex The Greenwich Collection.
Both sons died of the Sweating Sickness on the same day, July 14th 1551. Henry holds the record for the shortest tenure of a British peerage, perishing just one hour after his older brother. With their passing, the title of Duke of Suffolk went extinct.