Van der Doort c.1639
WS 76, № 3
Done in Prague by Paul van Vianen, the Emperor Rudolf's man in chasing work
Madonna and Christ (in the clouds) and a Saint holding her tooth in pincers
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
0ft 5½in x 0ft 4in (13.8 x 10.2cm)
Medium:
silver relief plaque
Frame:
black frame
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Hang notes:
under no. 2
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 V&A MS, f. 23, no 5 (WS 207)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Unknown