St Paul on Malta
Probably after the Adam Elsheimer St Paul on Malta in the National Gallery, cited here instead. The description of two light sources supports this.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 82, № 29
Peter Oliver
St Paul on (Malta), where he is shipwrecked, viper leaps out of the fire taking hold of his finger
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
0ft 3in x 0ft 3¾in (7.6 x 9.5cm)
Medium:
little oval limning
Light:
light from the left and the right
Frame:
square black ebony frame
Hang notes:
under no. 28
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. 9 and MS. Ash. 1513, f . 9
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the Ashmolean Manuscript
Identification certainty:
version of