Van der Doort c.1639

Valckenborch

House on Fire, in a village with people running to put it out

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 84, № 42
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
3½in x 3½in (8.9 x 8.9cm)
Medium: 
(little round piece on) slate
Light: 
light from the fire from right and left
Frame: 
round wooden frame
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
gift
Hang notes: 
item hereunder [under Steenwyck no 41]
Location: 
Room description extended: 
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 12 and V&A MS, f. 32, no 46 (WS 209)
Interpreting the text: 
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Adam Elsheimer