Unidentified

Presumably a copy of the painting in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Van der Doort c.1639

said to be Pieter Bruegel I, thought to be but a mean copy after his invention

Blind leading the Blind

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 174, № 16
Medium: 
watercolour
Provenance: 
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Notes: 
entirely ruined by mercury ["so that it is not worth anything" = struck through]
Room description extended: 
In the Bear Gallery
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 175
Identification certainty: 
Unknown