Unidentified
Note that the match with the Sale inventory record is only a loose possibility. There are several perspectives by or after Steenwyck in the Royal Collection today and several references in the inventories. For all the Steenwyck candidates without firm matches see van der Doort WS 87, no 57 and also Sale inventory WS 315, no 262, WS 192, no 100, WS 268, no 185, WS 323, no 21, WS 307, no 144, WS 259, no 52, 54, 55, WS 315, no 266, WS 269, no 212, WS 63, no 58, WS 204, no 303 and WS 416, no 9 (including this record)
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 84, № 41
Steenwyck (copied after his own work [struck through])
Perspective piece of the Imprisoned St Peter, 3 sleeping watchmen, one lying and 2 sitting
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 6¼in x 9¼in (46.4 x 23.5cm)
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
black frame
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 MS. Ash. 1514, f. 106
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets comes from the Ashmolean MS.
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51