Unidentified

....[title continues] 'was made for the Emperor Rudolph who did write diverse times for it to be brought to him but Prince Henry would upon no terms or conditions let the same and the maker thereof go out of England. But promising that he would give so good entertainment as any Emperor should. Whereupon he promised him that when the Cabinet Room should be done that he should have the keeping of all his medals and 5 ls a year for service done and to be done, which as yet (by reason of his unseasonable death and my modesty for want of importunance was never performed', given to Prince Henry by Van der Doort, kept in cupboard in the King's Cabinet Room though too big, so Doort has it himself until a proper place is found [item lightly struck through]

Van der Doort c.1639

Abraham van der Doort

[-] embossed in coloured wax, life-size....

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 154, № 3
Medium: 
coloured wax
Frame: 
on pedestal of black ebony inlaid with silver and gold
Location: 
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS Ash. 1514, f. 140
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51