Madonna on the Ground (Birth of Christ with Angels and shepherds) (not certain to be by Titian)

Adoration of the Shepherds

The information here is an amalgamation of records from different source manuscripts.

Note that the work cited here is only a possible match with the seventeenth-century record and only a possible match with the Sale inventory (see also Sale inventory WS 270, №231). Also see Titian (?)'s Adoration of the Shepherds in the Christ Church Picture Gallery (no. JBS 79) which bears a CR brand on its reverse. "Nativity disclosed to the shepherds in collection of General Guise" [whose collection passed to Christ Church] added by Horace Walpole in his copy of George Vertue, Catalogue and Description of King Charles I's Capital Collection.. (1757) in the Surveyor's office, St James's Palace.

Titian List as in 'the King's Gallery at Greenwich', van der Doort inventory WS 184

Van der Doort c.1639

Madonna on the Ground (Birth of Christ with Angels and shepherds) (not certain to be by Titian)

Walpole Society reference (1960):

WS 45, № 18

Measurements (Van der Doort):

3ft 2in x 4ft 8in (96.5 x 142.2cm) [with frame] or 2ft 5in x 3ft 11in (73.7 x 119.4cm) [without frame]

Location:

Long Gallery (towards the Orchard)

Room description extended:

Towards the Orchard

Original Manuscript page number:

MS. Ash. 1514, f. 60 and V. & A. MS., f. 10, no 5

Charles II inventory c1666:

Whitehall, № 549, 71 x 117

Interpreting the text:

Text in brackets from the V&A manuscript and from Titian list WS 184. Information an amalgamation of records from different manuscripts

Identification certainty:

Possible

Sale Inventory c.1649-51