Van der Doort c.1639
WS 77, № 5
Said to be Elsheimer before he was in Italy from a print of Albrecht Durer
Little piece, Witch, riding upon a black ram goat in the air with a distaff in her hand, 4 little cupids in several actions nearby (playing with sticks and a globe, in strange postures)
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
0ft 5½in x 0ft 4in (13.8 x 10.2cm)
Medium:
(panel) [apparently a mistake - in fact on copper]
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
(black ebony frame)
Provenance:
Sir Arthur Hopton, your majesty's Ambassador in Spain
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Hang notes:
(formerly placed in the Chair Room)
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. 3 and MS. Ash. 1514, f. 97
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 351, 13 x 10
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the Ashmolean Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51