This print is included that it may be compared with the actual Holbein print. It shows how important accuracy of detail in the costuming of a part is.
When I impersonated this character in the Chelsea Pageant, every London paper commented on the success of the make-up, the Times saying, if the Chancellor were to rise from the grave even he could hardly tell the difference between us; the Standard, that I realised Holbein's portrait with startling fidelity, and the Daily News, that I looked as if I had stepped directly out of Holbein's well-known canvas; while the Sketch and Referee called me a living Holbein.
The additional pictures of Sir Thomas More are reproduced to show how well the illusion of character was maintained under the most trying conditions possible.
Make-up usually seems more real when seen by artificial light, but as at the Chelsea Pageant, 1908, I had no such aid, the achievement of absolute reality was all the more difficult.