Margaret Giggs (1508-1570)
c.1526-7RCIN 912229
Although identified as ‘Mother Iak’ in an eighteenth-century hand, this drawing probably shows Margaret Giggs (1508-70), one of Thomas More’s adopted daughters. Margaret received a classical education in More’s household, and was to marry her Greek tutor, Sir John Clements. Here she is shown in a fur cap, rather than the headdress which she wears in Holbein’s sketch of the group portrait.
watermark: Briquet 12863, crowned vase with flower [same as 12217,12215,12263,12258,12190,12193,12206,12270,12225,12224]