St Christopher
Possibly originally given by Lord Arundel. See Keith Andrews, Adam Elsheimer, 1977
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 90, № 75
Adam Elsheimer
St Christopher carrying Christ on his right shoulder, in a dark landscape
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
9½in x 6½in (24.1 x 16.5cm)
Medium:
copper
Light:
light from the left
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
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. 20
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 587, 23 x 15
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51