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George Vertue  (1684–1756)  wikidata:Q930477 s:en:Author:George Vertue q:it:George Vertue
 
George Vertue
Alternative names
George Virtue; Vertue; G. Vertue; Mr. Vertue; Virtue
Description British printmaker and antiquarian
Date of birth/death 1684 Edit this at Wikidata 24 July 1756 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster London
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Greater London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q930477
copy of portrait
Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
Alternative names
Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg London
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Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
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artist QS:P170,Q48319
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English: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Engraving by George Vertue, after Gerlach Flicke, published 1711. Copy of painting by Hans Holbein, as inscribed. 10 3/8 in. x 6 1/4 in. (264 mm x 158 mm) plate size; 15 in. x 12 in. (382 mm x 306 mm) paper size. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D34234.

Showing the arms of the See of Canterbury impaling the canting arms of Cranmer: A chevron between three cranes. These arms were changed by King Henry VIII to On a chevron between three pelicans vulning themselves three cinquefoils as recorded by Thomas Strype in 1693:

About this time it was, as I conjecture, that the King changed his coat of armse. For unto the year 1543 he bore his paternal coat of three cranes sable, as I find by a date set under his arms, yet remaining in a window in Lambethhouse. For it is to be noted, that the King, perceiving how much ado Cranmer would have in the defence of his religion, altered the three cranes, which were parcel of his ancestors' arms, into three pelicans, declaring unto him, "That those birds should signify unto him, that he ought "to be ready, as the pelican is, to shed his blood for his "young ones, brought up in the faith of Christ. For," said the King, " you are like to be tasted, if you stand to your "tackling at length." (Strype, John, Historical and Biographical Works: Memorials of Thomas Cranmer Chapter 28, 1544 (p.181 of 1840 edition[1])

Cranmer's seal of Nov. 1538 still showed cranes, but by April 1540 he had adopted the pelicans. (Ridley, Jasper, Thomas Cranmer, note 1 to chapter 1[2])

Arms of Cranmer (per Berry, William, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume 2[3] : Argent, a chevron between three cranes azure and later arms: Argent, on a chevron azure between three pelicans sable vulning themselves proper as many cinquefoils or

Further discussion of Cranmer's seals and heraldry see: MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer: A Life, pp.9-12[4]
Date 1711
date QS:P571,+1711-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Source/Photographer https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw149041/Thomas-Cranmer

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