An Allegory of Vice
The items in store as yet unplaced, beginning here, must have been deemed special enough to include at the end of the Windsor MS. (which is a fair copy of the Cabinet Room, probably for the King's personal use)
Pair with no 2
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 156, № 1
Antonio Correggio
1st, Tormenting of Marsyas, one sitting and stinging him with vipers, another blowing with a pipe in his left ear, a third flaying him, little young satyr's head below....
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
(4ft 11 x 2ft 9) (149.9 x 83.8)
Medium:
watercolour on canvas
Frame:
all-over gilded frame
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Notes:
[title cont'd]...apart from the young satyr’s head four full-length less-than-half-life-size figures in a landscape, famous and large
Hang notes:
Kept shut up in double door shutting wooden case, in the Cabinet Room
Location:
Room description extended:
Pictures and other things in store in several places and as yet unplaced
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 121 and MS Ash, 1514, f. 155
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets from the Ashmolean MS.
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51