Van der Doort c.1639

Valckenborch

Landscape with Christ tempted by the Devil to make stones into bread, with the river Rhine and the 'Rat's Tower', where the "sijt" [?] Bishop thought to save himself from the rats

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 160, № 5
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1ft 9in x 2ft 6in (53.3 x 76.2cm)
Medium: 
watercolour
Frame: 
black frame
Provenance: 
Sir James Palmer (via)
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Room description extended: 
Pictures and other things in store in several places and as yet unplaced
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS Ash 1514, f. 157
Identification certainty: 
Unknown