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knew. If he really difcovered any ambi- 

 tious views in the houfe of Norfolk, this 

 pidlure would feem a confirmation of them. 

 To expofe the blemifhes in the blood of 

 the three only branches of the royal family, 

 might be a leading flep towards aflerting 

 their own claim— at leall their own line 

 would not appear lefs noble, than the de- 

 fcendents of Boleyn, Brandon and Douglas. 



Holbein's talents were not confined to 

 his pictures -, he was an architcclj he mo- 

 delled, carved, was excellent in defigning 

 ornaments, and gave draughts of prints for 

 feveral books, fome of which it is fuppofed 

 he cut himfeif. Sir Hans Sloane had a 

 book of jewels defigned by him, now in 

 the Britifh mufeum. Pie invented pat- 

 terns * for goldfmith's work, for enamel - 

 lers and chafers of plate, arts much coun- 

 tenanced by Henry VIII. Inigo Jones 

 fliowed Sandrart another book of Holbein's 



* The noble feal appendant to the furrender of Car- 

 dinal Wolfey's college at Oxford, has all the appear- 

 ance of being defigned by Holbein. The deed is pre- 

 ferved in the augmentation-offxe, and the feal has been 

 engraved among the plates pubiifhed by the fociety of 

 Antiquaries. 



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