Van der Doort c.1639

Italian

Bird-Catcher, with a lantern in his left hand and a striking ladle in the other

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 93, № 13
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1ft x 0in (30.5cm high)
Frame: 
black wooden pedestal
Provenance: 
Henry, Prince of Wales
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
inherited
Notes: 
No. 11 of the Florentine bronze statues
Location: 
Room description extended: 
Your Majesty's statues placed round about the Cabinet Room; 36 including 16 of the 18 little statues which came to your majesty by the decease of Prince Henry; the other 2 are in the Chair Room
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 24
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51